A daily digest of market, agri-policy, technology and climate news — from Ukraine and the world. 127 news items in 22 sections.
A field study using fiber-optic sensing found that repeated tillage damages soil structure and reduces the ability of farmland to retain water.
England has released the first experimental national soil-health indicators covering runoff mitigation, carbon storage and sustainable arable crop provision using 2023-2024 baseline data.
A sixth seasonal snowfall in Nepal’s Mustang is being treated as timely relief for herders and growers after several years of weaker snow conditions.
A Canadian farm-led initiative delivered yam planting material and fertilizer to Jamaican growers hit by severe hurricane damage.
A PLOS ONE field study reports that integrating early-bulking potato genotypes 7 Alu and Sagitta enabled four to five crops per year and sharply improved system-level productivity.
New modeling suggests cassava can spread to more African regions, but cassava brown streak disease risk may expand even faster.
A Scientific Reports study applied a CEC-based fertility index for variable soybean seeding and reported higher yields and net returns than fixed-rate seeding.
Nature Genetics reports a genomics-guided maize breeding strategy for high-density planting, with new hybrids delivering 4.1–9.2% higher yields than Yufeng303 across test environments.
Farmers in Australia’s Riverina say rabbit pressure is causing losses of up to $100,000 a year on individual properties, with crop damage, baiting costs and weakening biological control…
