Uruguay's Ministry of Livestock, Agriculture and Fisheries declared a nationwide sanitary emergency on 4 September after confirming H5 highly pathogenic avian influenza in backyard poultry in Colonia department, in the country's southwest (MGAP…
President Trump signed an executive order on 4 September directing the US Department of Agriculture, in consultation with the US Trade Representative, to review its authorities related to mandatory country-of-origin labelling for beef, through both…
India's monsoon is on track for its weakest seasonal finish since 2009. The India Meteorological Department has confirmed a cumulative rainfall deficit running through August, with several independent tallies putting the shortfall in the 13–16%…
The GDT Price Index rose 0.9% at Global Dairy Trade's Event 411 on 1 September, its fourth consecutive gain, but the composition of that increase is the more significant reading than the headline number. Skim milk powder rose 5.3% to $3,695 per…
USDA's September WASDE, released 11 September, cut the US corn yield forecast to 178.5 bushels per acre from August's 180.7, trimming projected production to 15.8 billion bushels (USDA, World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates, WASDE-675, 11…
US Customs and Border Protection begins enforcing a new accuracy standard for importer-of-record data on 18 September, and any Form 5106 record CBP determines to be inaccurate or incomplete will be immediately voided — rendering the importer number…
India's Ministry of Finance issued Notification No. 30/2026-Customs on 21 August, exempting up to 10 lakh metric tonnes (1 million tonnes) of raw sugar under tariff heading 1701 from the whole of the customs duty otherwise leviable under the Customs…
The 2026/27 US soybean marketing year opened 1 September, and USDA export sales data show China purchases running in the low hundreds of thousands of metric tons in the season's opening days — 192,000 MT and 202,000 MT confirmed in separate reports…
USDA's Crop Progress report for the week ending 30 August rated corn at 57% good-to-excellent, steady week-on-week but 12 percentage points below last year's 69%, with 17% of the crop rated very poor to poor — 8 points above the prior year's 9%…
The Swine Health Information Center and University of Minnesota's Global Swine Disease Monitoring Report for September, covering 30 July to 26 August, recorded 154 ASF outbreaks in domestic pigs reported to EU ADIS across nine European countries —…
The FAO Food Price Index averaged 133.3 points in August, up 1.9% from a revised July level and 2.5% year-on-year — its highest reading since late 2022 (FAO, Supply concerns drive Food Price Index higher, 4 September 2026). FAO Chief Economist…
The World Meteorological Organization said on 3 September that El Niño will almost certainly persist through February 2027 and is forecast to strengthen to very strong intensity before peaking late this year — language WMO itself characterised as…