The African Agricultural Technology Foundation has received a grant through a USAID-funded program to be used for the commercialization of a Striga weed-resistant corn. Striga weed can cause corn crop losses of up to 80 percent.
News Updates MEDITERRANEAN/MIDDLE EAST COMMENTS Saudi Arabia is set to receive the largest-ever barley shipment from Australia in the coming days. The vessel CMB Medoc is en route with 79,000 MT of feed barley valued in excess of $20 million. Australia is seeing a record level of barley production this year and is looking forward to further exports to Saudi where import demand for barley is close to 8 MMT per year.FAO and Egypt are working on a new arrangement that will have FAO send agricultural expert...
What You Need to Know Today: Commodities were mostly lower across the board today after yesterday’s Federal Reserve meeting hinted at a potential interest rate hike later in 2026. The dollar index reached its highest level in over a year, and a strong dollar makes U.S. agricultural expor...
Tomorrow is the Juneteenth federal holiday, and the USDA, along with the rest of the federal government and the CME, will be closed, so the monthly Cattle on Feed report was released a day early. The total number of cattle on feed in feedlots with 1,000 head or more capacity on 1 June amounted...
