A daily digest of market, agri-policy, technology and climate news — from Ukraine and the world. 180 news items in 26 sections.
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…
Johns Hopkins researchers found that tomatoes, carrots and lettuce irrigated with treated wastewater tend to accumulate trace pharmaceuticals mainly in leaves, while edible tomato fruits and carrot roots…