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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
Editorial Team
Sep 23, 2026
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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
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
Imported lemon prices fall 40% at US ports while California fruit holds firm
A surge of Argentine and Chilean supply has driven imported spot values sharply lower, but the domestic market has not followed them down.
Aug 27, 2026
Washington stops forecasting its apple crop, leaving the market to size the harvest
The state that grows two-thirds of US apples dropped its early-season estimate and declined to refine USDA's number, leaving one marketer's figure as the only Washington read.
Aug 24, 2026
Illinois corn holds through its wettest August since 1993 as Minnesota drought races the crop to maturity
The first official crop scores since the belt split show the dry north-west still rating higher than the drowned east, and the yield number the market is trading was surveyed before the deluge.
Aug 19, 2026
USDA's record soybean yield forecasts predate 5x normal rain in Illinois, Indiana and Ohio
The 12 August forecast surveyed growers to 5 August, before the heaviest rain fell — while south-west Minnesota had its second-driest first half of August in 86 years
Aug 17, 2026
USDA cuts US sorghum crop by a third with the hottest week still to come
The August forecast was surveyed as the High Plains heated up. Kansas flowers into a week forecast at up to 7.8C above normal, just as China returns as the buyer of 87 per cent of US exports
Aug 14, 2026
California's almond crop goes to market without a government measurement for the first time in 60 years
The Almond Board stopped funding the USDA's July field estimate after it missed by about 10 per cent; handlers are negotiating new-crop prices against private numbers instead
Aug 12, 2026
California's in-shell walnut shipments to Turkey quadruple, then meet a higher duty
Shipments reached 54,849 tonnes in the ten months to June as a Turkish frost and the end of a Section 232 retaliation reopened the market, but Ankara raised the walnut duty to 20 per cent in February
Aug 11, 2026
Europe's pistachio imports turn 99% American as Iran exits and California's crop halves
A record 62,938 tonnes arrived from outside the bloc in the first five months of 2026, drawn from California's record 2025 harvest. The 2026 crop reaches European buyers from about November.
Aug 10, 2026
California pistachio crop to fall up to 60% on record March heat and off-year cycle
Industry estimates put the harvest at 600mn to 900mn lb against last year's record 1.6bn lb. Wonderful Pistachios, about 60 per cent of the market, sits at the pessimistic end of the range.
Aug 5, 2026