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Ivory Coast Cocoa Sector Struggles With New Rules
Ivory Coast Cocoa Sector Struggles With New Rules
Traders and cooperatives say Ivory Coast's new mandatory producer card could slow cocoa purchases through October and November, just as the 2026/27 season ramps up. Read more...
Canada Taxes US Lumber 25%, Plywood 50%
Canada Taxes US Lumber 25%, Plywood 50%
Even as Ottawa matches Washington's tariffs dollar for dollar, the new 25% rate on US lumber still falls well short of the roughly 45% combined tariff Canadian softwood pays entering... Read more...
U.S. Tariffs Push Canadian Wool Overseas
U.S. Tariffs Push Canadian Wool Overseas
Canada's small wool industry, dependent on U.S. mills it can no longer afford to use, is betting on overseas buyers and its own processing capacity instead. Read more...
US Corn Exports Up 25.1% in 2026
US Corn Exports Up 25.1% in 2026
With just days left in the 2025/26 marketing year, corn shipments are on pace to hit USDA's record forecast while soybean sales keep losing ground to reduced Chinese demand. Read more...
Brazil Overtakes US in Cotton Exports, Hits $5.3B Record
Brazil Overtakes US in Cotton Exports, Hits $5.3B Record
Brazil shipped 718,000 more tonnes than the US in 2025/26, but Abrapa already expects a smaller harvest to shrink next season's exports. Read more...
Two Countries Buy More Than 60% of Ukraine Cheese
Two Countries Buy More Than 60% of Ukraine Cheese
Cheese imports grew roughly 20 times faster than exports over the same seven months, and now outweigh exports more than three to one by volume. Read more...
India Drives Indonesia Palm Oil Export to $3.92B
India Drives Indonesia Palm Oil Export to $3.92B
The rebound followed a monthly price correction, and lands as GAPKI's own leadership flags El Nino-linked risk to 2027 production. Read more...
EU Pesticide Rule Could Cut Imports by 41%
EU Pesticide Rule Could Cut Imports by 41%
The EU's own research service puts $16 billion in US exports at risk, with citrus and soybean imports facing the sharpest hit under a worst-case scenario.   Read more...
India Exported Sugar, Now Must Import It Back
India Exported Sugar, Now Must Import It Back
Retail prices jumped nearly 40% in two months, and traders now expect mills to use only half the government's new import quota as domestic prices have already reversed.   Read more...
EU Seed Imports Fall 27% as Oil Imports Jump 70%
EU Seed Imports Fall 27% as Oil Imports Jump 70%
EU rapeseed oil consumption outgrew the bloc's own oil production this season, pulling in far more imported oil even as a bumper domestic harvest shrank the need for outside seed. Read more...
UK Cheese Hits Export Record as Dairy Sinks to 25%
UK Cheese Hits Export Record as Dairy Sinks to 25%
UK cheese exports hit an all-time high in Q2 2026, even as total dairy export volume fell 25% to 277,800 tonnes, per AHDB.   Read more...
Ukraine Sunflower Oil Exports Cut in Half by Sea Pause
Ukraine Sunflower Oil Exports Cut in Half by Sea Pause
Processors can't move finished stock, and purchase prices for raw sunflower have already started falling as a result. Read more...
Japan Peach Exports To Jump 34%
Japan Peach Exports To Jump 34%
A bigger, better-sized 2026 crop is set to reverse last year's export slide, leaving more Japanese peaches and nectarines for buyers in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Read more...
FDA Upgrades Blueberry Recall to Class I
FDA Upgrades Blueberry Recall to Class I
The FDA classified a Publix blueberry recall as Class I after finding a second contaminated lot from its Chilean supplier, now facing import detention. Read more...
New 50% US Tariff Hits Canadian Dairy, Ag Exports
New 50% US Tariff Hits Canadian Dairy, Ag Exports
Talks between Ottawa and Washington collapsed hours before the deadline, and Carney says Canada will match the tariffs dollar for dollar.   Read more...
US Peach Imports to Mexico Set to Grow 7%
US Peach Imports to Mexico Set to Grow 7%
Frost and hail losses are forecast to shrink Mexico's own peach crop 5% this year, widening the opening U.S. growers already hold under a zero-tariff trade deal. Read more...
Japan Cherry Production Set to Jump 25%
Japan Cherry Production Set to Jump 25%
Yamagata's rebound lands the same year a smaller U.S. sweet cherry crop tightens the supply of imports Japan still leans on. Read more...
Cotton Climbs to 89 Cents, 4th Straight Week Up
Cotton Climbs to 89 Cents, 4th Straight Week Up
USDA's latest crop report showed U.S. cotton conditions falling further behind both last year and the five-year average, and traders are already flagging risk of a pullback after the four-week... Read more...
China Tire Exports Drop; EU Duties Now Active
China Tire Exports Drop; EU Duties Now Active
The decline is in the same month new EU anti-dumping duties on Chinese tires took effect, a shift some Chinese manufacturers were already routing around by shipping from factories in... Read more...
Philippine Rice Imports Jump 20.1% in H1
Philippine Rice Imports Jump 20.1% in H1
The first-half total already covers 57% of the government's full-year import target, as El Niño concerns push the Department of Agriculture to restrict a key import grade ahead of the... Read more...
China Sets New Seed Rules to 10 Crops
China Sets New Seed Rules to 10 Crops
Genetic similarity thresholds now decide who has to prove what when a new variety looks too close to a protected one, and the U.S. government's own trade report flags concern... Read more...
El Niño Fears Lift Prices of Veg Oils, Sugar and Cocoa
El Niño Fears Lift Prices of Veg Oils, Sugar and Cocoa
The FAO Vegetable Oil Price Index rose 2.0% in July, to 195.7 points, reaching its highest level since June 2022, according to data released by the Food and Agriculture Organization... Read more...
Saudi Arabia Starts Exporting Potatoes
Saudi Arabia Starts Exporting Potatoes
Desert irrigation and a fast-growing food service sector turned a decades-old self-sufficiency push into a regional export business. Read more...
Black Sea War Pushes India to Record Soyoil Imports
Black Sea War Pushes India to Record Soyoil Imports
Refiners have already booked nearly 1.4 million tons of soyoil for shipment through December, pulling in supply from China, Egypt, Thailand and Turkey alongside traditional sellers Argentina and Brazil. Read more...
Chicago Wheat Jumps 22¢ as Russia Rejects Truce
Chicago Wheat Jumps 22¢ as Russia Rejects Truce
Traders are pricing Black Sea war risk over U.S. crop conditions this week, with Ukraine's own export capacity already cut by more than half this season. Read more...
US Dairy Bets $13B as Farm Count Keeps Falling
US Dairy Bets $13B as Farm Count Keeps Falling
U.S. dairy processors are investing $13 billion across 19 states as USDA projects milk production growing 15 billion pounds by 2030 on fewer farms.   Read more...
China Sets 54.3% Anti-Dumping Rate on US Pecans
China Sets 54.3% Anti-Dumping Rate on US Pecans
China's Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) ruled preliminarily on August 10 that pecans imported from the United States and Mexico were being dumped in the Chinese market. Importers had to start... Read more...
Colombia Coffee Exports Resume After Earthquake, Backlog Remains
Colombia Coffee Exports Resume After Earthquake, Backlog Remains
Buenaventura, which handles 60% of Colombia's coffee exports, reopened two days after the earthquake. A truck shortage and an unfinished damage assessment mean exporters are not out of the disruption... Read more...
China Buys 88% of Australia's Wool Exports
China Buys 88% of Australia's Wool Exports
China buys 88% of Australia's wool exports, and the industry's record price rally rides almost entirely on demand from a single buyer. Read more...
South African Blueberries Exports 80% of Supply to Europe
South African Blueberries Exports 80% of Supply to Europe
South Africa exported 25,584 MT of blueberries in MY2025/26, with Europe and the UK buying 80%. Read more...
Avocado Packers in Mexico Still Await US Approval
Avocado Packers in Mexico Still Await US Approval
The State of Mexico has met its own export requirements. USDA authorization to sell avocados in the US remains pending. Read more...
US Exports of Fresh Fruits to Singapore Increased to $36.4M in 2025
US Exports of Fresh Fruits to Singapore Increased to $36.4M in 2025
US fresh fruit exports to Singapore rose 6% in 2025 to $36.4M, still trailing China, Malaysia, and Australia as suppliers. Read more...
Monsoon Ventures Launches to Fund SE Asia Agtech
Monsoon Ventures Launches to Fund SE Asia Agtech
Beanstalk AgTech launched Monsoon Ventures, a studio based in Singapore funding agtech startups for smallholder farmers across six Southeast Asian markets. Read more...
Cameroon Cocoa Prices Fall as Supply Drops 20%
Cameroon Cocoa Prices Fall as Supply Drops 20%
Cameroon's marketed cocoa production fell 19.9% to a five-year low of 247,914 tons in 2025/26, even as global oversupply pushed prices down too. Read more...
El Niño Set to Cut Global Rice Output by 9M Tonnes
El Niño Set to Cut Global Rice Output by 9M Tonnes
Global rice production is projected to fall by 9 million tonnes to 536.4 million tonnes in 2026-27 amid El Niño risk and rising costs. Read more...
US Supplies $1.66 Billion of Thailand's $23.5 Billion Agricultural Imports
US Supplies $1.66 Billion of Thailand's $23.5 Billion Agricultural Imports
The US supplied $1.66B of Thailand's $23.5B in agricultural imports in 2025, per USDA. Cherries and apples gained ground while oranges and grapes fell. Read more...
US Dairy Exports Fall 5% as Cheese Volume Peaks
US Dairy Exports Fall 5% as Cheese Volume Peaks
U.S. dairy exports fell 5% in June on a milk solids equivalent basis, even as cheese exports set a new monthly volume record of 64,604 metric tons. Read more...
Australia Demands Certificates on US Meat and Produce
Australia Demands Certificates on US Meat and Produce
  Australia requires U.S. exporters to carry product-specific certificates for meat, produce, and dairy before shipments can clear its border. The requirement is detailed in a FAIRS Export Certificate Report... Read more...
Aramco Ventures Funds Mitti Labs' Asia Rice Push
Aramco Ventures Funds Mitti Labs' Asia Rice Push
Aramco Ventures led a $9.5 million round in Mitti Labs, its first Indian startup bet, funding expansion into the Philippines and Indonesia.   Read more...
China's Buying Spree Tops 2M Tons of US Soybeans
China's Buying Spree Tops 2M Tons of US Soybeans
Chinese state trading companies bought over 2 million tons of US soybeans in a week, pushing China closer to its 25-million-ton annual pledge. Read more...
Sweden's Lumber Exports to the US Fell by Half
Sweden's Lumber Exports to the US Fell by Half
Sweden's sawn softwood exports to the US fell 52% in May and 44% year to date, even as prices for US-bound lumber climbed 24%. Read more...
Heatwaves Cut EU Grain Output to 8%
Heatwaves Cut EU Grain Output to 8%
USDA's FAS cut its EU grain forecast to 266 MMT for 2026/27, an 8% drop tied to heatwave-hit yields in France, Hungary, Poland, and Germany. Read more...
US Food Makers Keep Shifting Away From Corn Syrup
US Food Makers Keep Shifting Away From Corn Syrup
US sugar deliveries rose 0.6% while HFCS fell 3.5% in early 2025/26, per a new CoBank report on shifting sweetener demand. Read more...
Murcia Grape Exports Hit Record €292M, Up 19%
Murcia Grape Exports Hit Record €292M, Up 19%
Murcia's table grape exports hit a record €292.46M in 2025, up 19%, as UK imports more than doubled to €56.28M. Germany remains the top market. Read more...
Taiwan Mangoes Sell Out in Paris Debut
Taiwan Mangoes Sell Out in Paris Debut
Taiwan's Irwin mangoes sold out in two days at Galeries Lafayette in Paris, and pre-sold out in the UK, as growers pivot away from China's 2023 ban. Read more...
Australia Overtakes US in Almond Sales to China
Australia Overtakes US in Almond Sales to China
Australia overtook the US as China's top almond supplier in 2025, selling more than 12 times the US total under zero-tariff trade access. Read more...
Blueberries from Canada Approved for Export to the Philippines
Blueberries from Canada Approved for Export to the Philippines
Fresh BC blueberries gain approval to enter the Philippines, joining the US as an authorized supplier ahead of a phased rollout through 2027. Read more...
US Food Exports to Portugal Hit Record $563M
US Food Exports to Portugal Hit Record $563M
U.S. ag, fish, and forest exports to Portugal hit a record $563M in 2025 as record tourism and EU-wide demand for consumer food grew. Read more...
Bee Shortage Cuts Blueberry Yields in Canada
Bee Shortage Cuts Blueberry Yields in Canada
BC blueberry growers face a honeybee shortage and warm winter that could cut 2026 volumes up to 26%, BCBC says, as hive costs double. Read more...
EU Fruit Imports Hit $77B
EU Fruit Imports Hit $77B
EU fruit imports reached $77.42 billion in 2025, up 20 percent. Bananas, avocados, and grapes led value, while almonds posted 47 percent growth. Read more...