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A line of round cotton modules wrapped in yellow plastic on bare red soil in a harvested field under a clear blue sky
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Bunge cotton chief proposes Brazil price benchmark as exports outstrip US

World's biggest cotton exporter still hedges on an ICE contract deliverable only in US-grown fibre

Editorial Team
Oct 5, 2026
Rows of young crop in dark red soil at Table Cape in north-west Tasmania, with the Table Cape lighthouse above Bass Strait beyond

McCain seeks A$15/t cut from Tasmanian potato growers as it shelves €1bn German fry plant

Canadian fry maker cites overcapacity on both sides of the world; Belgian growers' 2026-crop contracts about 18% below last year's

Oct 2, 2026
A pale cacao flower with red-streaked petals hanging on a thin stalk from the trunk of a cacao tree

Record September rain soaks Ecuador cocoa belt as El Niño arrives early

Guayaquil logs its wettest September since 1961 and a Quevedo station nearly six times its normal rain, as growers and exporters warn of flower loss and frosty pod rot ahead of the March-April crop

Sep 28, 2026
Grain pouring from a loading spout into the open hold of a red bulk carrier alongside a grain terminal, seen from above, with the waters of Tsemes Bay and harbour cranes behind

Black Sea wheat exports seen halving as port attacks split world prices

Russian export offers fall to lowest since April 2024 while US Gulf wheat hits three-year high; Russia now quotes $268 a tonne from the Baltic against a notional $210 at Novorossiysk

Sep 24, 2026
A field of potatoes with the haulm burnt off and brown, ready for lifting, under a blue sky with hedgerows and green fields beyond near Clough, County Down

Northern Irish potato packer Glens of Antrim collapses with loss of 95 jobs

Administrators appointed nine months after accounts showed a £596,000 profit and a positive outlook; growers left with potatoes in the ground and no buyer, MP says

Sep 23, 2026
Aerial view of a farmstead surrounded by rows of orchard trees and bare, tilled fields on the flat floor of California's San Joaquin Valley

US pistachio exports may fall by up to half as heat-hit crop meets thin stocks

Handlers shipped 1.3bn lb in 2025/26 and enter an off-year with 221m lb in store and a crop estimated at 600m to 800m lb

Sep 23, 2026
Crates of freshly picked strawberries in the foreground of a field in Lower Egypt, with women carrying more crates on their heads along the planted rows behind

Egypt sells frozen strawberries to Brazil at 38% discount to Europe as EU residue checks bite

Egyptian surplus cleared in Latin America as tighter EU checks leave compliant fruit scarce; industry expects plantings to fall by up to 30 per cent next season

Sep 21, 2026
Two blue-hulled Maersk container ships berthed at the container terminal in Salalah, Oman, with gantry cranes, stacked Maersk boxes and a cement works below bare mountains

Maersk halts Gulf reefer bookings as EU food exports through Hormuz slump

Shipments to Saudi Arabia, Oman and Jordan, reachable without the strait, rose 1 per cent over the same six months

Sep 14, 2026
A blue self-propelled sweeper machine gathers almonds into a windrow in a California orchard, throwing up dust as the operator drives between the tree rows

Almond prices hit 10-year high even as industry body sees world supply up 6%

Select Harvests blames falling California supply; INC puts world output up 4.8%, USDA calls the US crop flat and buyers call stocks healthy; Spain's 39% jump is the weak link after record heat

Sep 11, 2026
Green banana bunches in blue protective bags hang from an overhead cableway running down an aisle of a banana plantation in Guatemala

Drought emergencies spread in Central America as Guatemala banana belt gets 26% of normal rain

El Salvador, Panama and Honduras declare emergencies; Guatemala supplies 39% of US banana imports and 58% of US melon and papaya imports, and the shortfall has yet to reach the trade data

Sep 10, 2026
Cheese curds floating in whey in a large stainless steel vat at a specialty cheese plant

US ban on Canadian dairy covers only whey, a $35mn trade

Ottawa's counter-tariffs hit $524mn of US dairy but spare butter and fluid milk, the two lines where Canada is Washington's biggest customer

Sep 10, 2026
Gnarled centuries-old olive trees with broad canopies spaced across a grassy grove under a blue sky near Ostuni in Apulia, southern Italy

Tunisia overtakes Spain as top US olive oil supplier as Italian shipments drop 31%

Italian stocks are 43.9 per cent higher than a year ago and extra-virgin is quoted at €4.85 a kg against €9.59 last August

Sep 9, 2026
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