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Opinion·JULY 11, 2026·Global

Farming's story is ours to tell

By RFT Editorial

The people who feed the world have the best story in the world — and it works best told first-hand.

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What the world's farming press is reporting, four editions a day, linked to the source. A week at a time; the rest lives in the archive.

Today

American Ag Network · 11:52 · News

ADM's Fourth Annual Regenerative Agriculture Report Highlights Growing Resilience Across the Food System

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Connecting Africa · 11:21 · Innovation

Hot startup of the month: Ghana's Complete Farmer

Read at Connecting Africa ↗

Phys.org · 11:20 · Innovation

What's keeping schoolchildren from eating local foods?

To get locally grown food onto a schoolchild's lunch tray, communities need supply chains that sort, process and package local farm products. They don't always exist.

Read at Phys.org ↗

Successful Farming · 10:02 · Markets

Prediction Markets Are Coming to Agriculture. What Farmers Need to Know.

Read at Successful Farming ↗

ThinkChina · 05:13 · Innovation

Will AI drink China’s farms dry?

Read at ThinkChina ↗

Agriland · 05:00 · Markets

Farmers offered new tools to help navigate beef market challenges

Read at Agriland ↗

People's Daily Online · 02:49 · Innovation

China's tech strategy for preserving precious black soil farmland

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The Guardian · 00:00 · News

More than 800,000 bees stolen across far north Queensland in ‘sophisticated’ operation

<p>Apiarists will lose not just the insects but the value of pollination contracts, which can be worth thousands of dollars</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2026/sep/21/anthony-albanese-new-york-jim-chalmers-intergenerational-report-coalition-one-nation-ntwnfb">

Read at The Guardian ↗

Yesterday

조선일보 · 23:48 · News

South Korea Postpones Forced Farmland Dispositions for Non-Speculative Use

Read at 조선일보 ↗

Farmers Weekly · 23:33 · News

Peter Gittins: Government must rebuild trust with farmers

Read at Farmers Weekly ↗

National Hog Farmer · 23:09 · Innovation

Students use AI to tackle heat stress in hogs

Read at National Hog Farmer ↗

RNZ Country · 21:13 · Markets

Fonterra raises farmgate milk price

Read at RNZ Country ↗

The Nation Newspaper · 17:44 · Innovation

AI could revolutionise African agriculture, cut food losses — Experts

Read at The Nation Newspaper ↗

Irish Farmers' Association · 15:52 · News

Government Should Release Fuel Support Funds Immediately – IFA

Read at Irish Farmers' Association ↗

OurQuadCities · 15:46 · News

Iowa farmers make push to break up what they call fertilizer monopoly

Read at OurQuadCities ↗

Agriland · 15:29 · Livestock

5th annual Dairy Women Ireland conference set for November 20

Read at Agriland ↗

Substack · 11:33 · News

Diesel Is About to Invade the Grocery Aisle

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AgroLatam · 11:02 · Innovation

Global Freight Crisis Raises New Risks for U.S.-Latin American Agricultural Trade

Read at AgroLatam ↗

Global Times · 09:42 · Weather

Rwandan agricultural professionals gain insights from Chinese training program

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nzherald.co.nz · 08:29 · News

Act vows to 'make farming fun again'

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Yorkshire Post · 05:00 · News

The Yorkshire Post Rural Awards 2026: Full list of finalists revealed

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African Farming · 05:00 · Markets

FMD | Imported vaccines account for 94% of OBP’s local sales

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Irish Independent · 04:37 · Crops

We can’t forget the ones who put food on the table’: a quiet corner of the Ploughing celebrates agriculture of old

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Saturday 19 September

WPSD Local 6 · 23:53 · Policy

Farmers, state leader react to Farm Bill passing committee

Read at WPSD Local 6 ↗

Farm Progress · 23:24 · News

Attorney's secret land buy grows into award-winning farm

Read at Farm Progress ↗

Richmond News · 20:30 · News

Column: Why attending Farm Fest is a must

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RFD-TV · 19:07 · Innovation

AI Moves from Farm Data to Machine Decisions

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BBC · 17:54 · News

Newbury Show welcomes thousands of visitors

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Agriland · 17:44 · News

Macra: Commissioner 'must not drop ball' on active farmers

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Politico · 16:00 · Markets

Farm-state Republicans are having a cow over Trump's beef imports as Election Day approaches

Read at Politico ↗

Global Agriculture · 15:14 · Markets

Romanian Farmers Clash With Police Over EU Livestock Export Ban

Read at Global Agriculture ↗

washingtonpost.com · 11:32 · Policy

Farmers want relief from Congress. Here’s the holdup.

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Successful Farming · 11:00 · News

California Farming’s Cautionary Tale for the Midwest

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ERR · 10:00 · News

Agricultural Museum renamed MUHK, opens new permanent exhibition

Read at ERR ↗

Agriland · 09:31 · Markets

Farming organisations note relative increase in 2026 grain prices

Read at Agriland ↗

Milling Middle East & Africa · 08:55 · Markets

Global rainfed agriculture fertilizers market set to reach US$85.3B by 2033

Read at Milling Middle East & Africa ↗

Yorkshire Post · 05:00 · News

How communication can help bridge the divide between farmers and landlords

Read at Yorkshire Post ↗

Financial Times · 04:00 · News

Dry British summers raise hopes of homegrown chickpeas

Read at Financial Times ↗

Farmers Weekly · 01:30 · Innovation

Up to 80 jobs at risk at UK Agri-Tech Centre

Read at Farmers Weekly ↗

Morocco World News · 01:01 · Crops

OCP Nutricrops to Supply Brazil 3.8 Million Tonnes of Fertilizer Through 2027

Read at Morocco World News ↗

Friday 18 September

fwi.co.uk · 23:30 · Markets

Why a farm machinery sales tax assessment is important

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Phys.org · 22:20 · Crops

Scientists hope deeper-rooted soybeans can withstand climate extremes and store more carbon

Research scientist Ashish Rajurkar kneels in the dirt, lifting a large clod of soil tangled around a soybean plant. He knocks away pieces of earth from the plant's roots, which slope straight down instead of out to the side like typical soybean plants.

Read at Phys.org ↗

AgroLatam · 22:09 · Markets

U.S.-China LNG Tariff Talks Could Open Door to Broader Farm Trade Deal

Read at AgroLatam ↗

UC Santa Cruz - News · 21:42 · News

UC Santa Cruz Explores Soil Steam Disinfestation as a Non-Chemical Alternative to Strawberry Fumigants - UC Santa Cruz

Read at UC Santa Cruz - News ↗

SeafoodSource · 17:41 · News

Op-ed: I went to Asia looking at aquaculture; I came back questioning Africa.

Read at SeafoodSource ↗

Agroberichten Buitenland · 17:37 · News

What the EU Mercosur agreement means for Dutch Agri Food Companies in Argentina

Read at Agroberichten Buitenland ↗

The Lane Report · 17:27 · Crops

Kentucky State research partners with farmers to improve soil health and crop production

Read at The Lane Report ↗

Phys.org · 13:40 · Weather

From war to weather, Australian farmers are planting spring crops in an uncertain world

Australian farmers are heading into spring with an unusual mix of optimism and uncertainty.

Read at Phys.org ↗

Climate Home News · 11:39 · News

How clean energy can boost business for Africa’s food producers

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The Guardian · 11:00 · Weather

US wheat farmers navigate uncertainty amid drought and geopolitical chaos

<p>Some experts worry factors affecting wheat exports could push global food prices even higher than they are now</p><p>Wheat prices are at their highest level in three years, which means farmer Merrill Nielsen should be getting more for his crops out of his 2,500-acre (1,010-hectare) <a href="https

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Phys.org · 08:00 · Crops

Early heat waves hit wheat yields hardest but boost resilience to subsequent heat waves

New research published in the Journal of Experimental Botany reveals that wheat crops are more sensitive to grain yield losses from heat waves that occur before reaching their flowering stage than those occurring later. However, exposure to heat waves early in the growing season may reduce yield los

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greenpeace.org · 05:31 · News

From our soil to the UN General Assembly: Africa’s women farmers demand change

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Agriland · 05:00 · Livestock

Leinster Aberdeen Angus club's open day and herd competition winners

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Phys.org · 02:40 · Innovation

Grass and clover can provide more than animal feed

Growing leys—grass and clover—is nothing new in Swedish agriculture. But in the arable farming regions dominated by cereal production, leys are less common. One reason is that there needs to be a market for what is harvested.

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Phys.org · 01:40 · Innovation

Robots grow and package lettuce year-round in Norway's fully automated farm

Norway's first fully automated facility for vegetable production was put into operation last fall. This spring, the first products hit store shelves.

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Thursday 17 September

Farmers Weekly · 23:32 · News

Will’s World: PM, please back British farming with action

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Farmers Weekly · 23:32 · News

On-farm biochar production a step closer to commercialisation

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Phys.org · 23:00 · Crops

Scaling up the detection of genome-edited rice lines

A new open-access study introduces RiSpy, a data-driven fingerprinting framework that makes the identification of genome-edited (GE) rice lines more robust, scalable and broadly applicable. Researchers from Sciensano, together with CIRAD and DARWIN project partners, in collaboration with colleagues

Read at Phys.org ↗

AgFunderNews · 20:43 · Weather

These constraints are holding agrifood back. AgFunder is investing to solve them

By backing constraints instead of applications, we’re betting on frontier and deeptech earlier than it may typically appear in agrifood, at better prices, and in companies that serve multiple downstream markets making its survival more likely. And it puts us in the deal early enough to make agrifood

Read at AgFunderNews ↗

Phys.org · 19:40 · Markets

New study explores US consumers' willingness to pay for fresh-market grape attributes

A recent study examined U.S. consumers' preferences and willingness to pay for different attributes of fresh-market grapes, providing insights for growers, retailers and the fresh produce industry. The research evaluated how factors such as grape size, sweetness, seedlessness, color and production m

Read at Phys.org ↗

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   Anna Kowalski · Jul 11

   Update on the apple thinning question: went with hiring two students from the agricultural school for a week. Cost less than the fruit I would have lost, and one of them spotted a codling moth issue I had missed. Sometimes the answer to "how do I do this alone" is: you do not.

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   Sarah McKenzie · Jul 11

   Calving countdown: 18 days to planned start. Springer mob drafted tonight, calving kits restocked, colostrum freezer inventoried (43 litres of gold-standard first-milking, labelled and dated). To every first-season worker reading this: the difference between a good calving and a nightmare is what you do in the fortnight BEFORE it starts. Ask me anything, genuinely.

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   Tom Hargreaves · Jul 11

   Four-day weather window promised so we mowed the top meadows this morning. The forecast is now, naturally, revising itself. Hay-making remains the only casino where the house calls you personally to change the odds after you have placed the bet.

   

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   Jake Miller · Jul 10

   Soil moisture probes at 14 inches: my no-till ground is holding 1.8" more plant-available water than the conventionally worked field across the fence line. Eleven years of not dragging steel through the ground, and July is when it pays the rent. The corn can tell. So can the banker.

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5. News · Market · Jul 10

   Fertiliser prices ease for the first time in three seasons

   Urea and DAP have fallen for three straight months. Whether to lock in or ride spot is this season's big buying call.

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   Priya Sharma · Jul 10

   Transplanting finished on the last paddy block today — three generations in the field by 6am, my father supervising from the bund with his tea like a foreman who has retired from everything except opinions. The drip blocks by contrast: quiet, even, and using half the water. Both pictures are Punjab in 2026.

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   Lars van der Berg · Jul 9

   3:40am: robot alert, cow 87 refused twice. Walked down expecting mastitis, found her standing on her collar strap like a hostage situation of her own design. Freed, milked, back asleep by 4:15. The sensors are brilliant. The cows remain undefeated. Farm tech in one post.

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8. News · Opinion · Jul 9

   Who really sets the price of food?

   Subsidies, export bans, tariffs, support prices — government decisions move farm incomes more than most farmers' own decisions. Understanding how is a survival skill.

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   Grace Wanjiku · Jul 9

   Second export pallet of the season passed inspection this morning — 98.2% pack-out, our best yet. Three years ago I was told avocados were "not a smallholder crop." The grading sheet respectfully disagrees. Seedlings from the same lines are in the marketplace for anyone starting their own argument with conventional wisdom.

   

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    Carlos Oliveira · Jul 8

    Drone fungicide pass on the safrinha maize finished in one day — 380 hectares, no wheel tracks, no crop damage, 40% less water than the ground rig. The neighbours came to watch and stayed to book slots. Happy to share the real cost-per-hectare numbers with anyone considering it, DMs open.

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11. For Sale · services · Jul 8

    Shearing run bookings — November/December window

    Our regular contract team has capacity for two more sheds in the Nov–Dec run, western districts. Six stands, wool handling included, references from three local studs. Price by negotiation depending on shed setup and numbers — make an offer with your dates and count.

    Make an offerfrom Thornleigh Merinos
12. News · Market · Jul 8

    Global Dairy Trade auction lifts 3.1% — second rise in a row

    Whole milk powder led the gains as North Asian buyers restocked. Two banks flag upside to farmgate forecasts if it holds.

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    Emma Thompson · Jul 8

    Wool market report from the shed: 19-micron indicator up again this week. Every year someone tells me merinos are finished, and every year the suit-makers of Italy quietly disagree. Ram sale entries close Friday — the poll boys are looking exceptional this drop.

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    Hamish Ross · Jul 7

    Pre-muster ride on the top block this morning. Meg (the young dog) held a mob on the bluff face like she'd been doing it a decade — her mother watched from the quad with what I can only describe as professional jealousy. Snow line creeping down. Autumn muster in three weeks.

    

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    1 unit available

    For Sale · machinery · Jul 7

    3m power harrow — new blades, ready to work

    Maschio 3m power harrow, new blades fitted this spring, packer roller good. Genuine spare set of blades included. Selling because I have moved to strip-till on the vegetable ground. Loading by appointment, Wielkopolska.

    €4,200Individual seller
16. News · Market · Jul 7

    Lamb schedule firms as UK supply tightens

    Fourth consecutive weekly lift as old-season lambs clear and export demand holds. Finish them properly or sell them store — do not split the difference.

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    Anna Kowalski · Jul 7

    Solo-farming question for the orchard people: hand-thinning the apples is taking me 3x longer than when my father and I did it together (mathematics is cruel). Chemical thinning scares me on the cherries' account next door. What do the small orchards here actually do — thin harder earlier, hire help, or accept smaller fruit? Honest answers over textbook ones please.

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    Megan Clarke · Jul 6

    First full season running the roster instead of just being on it. Learning that the hardest part of managing isn't the pasture maths or the vet calls — it's sending someone home at hour eleven when you know the job isn't finished and doing the last two hours yourself. The grass will be there tomorrow. The good people won't be, if you burn them.

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    7 head available

    For Sale · livestock · Jul 6

    Merino rams — 2026 drop, poll genetics

    Poll Merino rams from our stud's 2026 drop. Flock average 19 micron, these boys measuring 17.8–18.6 with strong staple and clean points. ASBVs available on request. Inspection welcome any time except shearing week (you will be handed a broom).

    A$1,800from Thornleigh Merinos
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    9 kit available

    For Sale · inputs · Jul 6

    Solar electric fence energiser kits — 5km range

    Complete solar energiser kits we imported in bulk for the collective: 5km rated energiser, 20W panel, battery, earth kit and tester. Fifteen spare kits available at our landed cost plus a little chai money. These have halved our night-grazing losses to stray cattle.

    ₹9,500from Sharma Agri Collective
21. News · Opinion · Jul 6

    The debt on the land: what every farmer should understand before signing

    Land-secured debt built most good farms — and has ended some. Loan-to-value, covenants, refinancing risk and mediation schemes, explained without the jargon.

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    Dev Patel · Jul 6

    Fixed the pressure drop on drip line 7 today — turned out to be a root-crushed lateral, not the filter like I assumed. Priya ma'am made me diagram the whole hydraulic run before touching anything. Annoying. Educational. Mostly annoying. (The weld on the repair coupling was excellent though, thank you for asking.)

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    Sarah McKenzie · Jul 5 · posting as Riverbend Dairy

    RIVERBEND OPEN GATE — our working dairy tours restart next week after calving prep. Watch afternoon milking from the platform, meet the spring calves from August, and ask us absolutely anything about how modern dairying actually works. Bookings via our farm page. Kids free this season, gumboots not.

    

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    4 quarter available

    For Sale · meat · Jul 5

    Hereford beef quarters — dry-aged 21 days

    Station-raised Hereford×, finished on summer high-country pasture, dry-aged 21 days at the local butcher. Quarters approx 55kg cut and wrapped to your spec. Pickup from Cromwell or freight at cost within Otago.

    NZ$450from Glenorchy Downs Station
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    18 hectare-day available

    For Sale · services · Jul 5

    Drone spray contracting — 40ha/day capability

    Agras T40 contracting for fungicide and foliar work, 40ha/day realistic in good conditions. Fully licensed, mixing trailer and water cart included. Working radius 150km from Sorriso; further by arrangement. Book early for the safrinha window.

    R$95from Fazenda Boa Vista
26. News · Market · Jul 5

    Wheat futures wobble on Black Sea headlines

    The screens moved more than the fundamentals. Basis, protein spreads and blending are where the real money is this harvest.

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    Tom Hargreaves · Jul 4 · posting as Briarfell Farm

    LAMB BOXES — nine of twelve gone already. Half-lamb boxes from our own hill flock, butchered and frozen: two legs, shoulder, chops, rack, mince, shanks. £95, collection or local delivery. Next batch won't be until after the autumn draft, so if your freezer has been dropping hints, now is the moment. Listing in the marketplace.

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    30 tonne available

    For Sale · grain · Jul 4

    Feed barley, 2026 harvest — ex-farm

    Spring barley off the lower fields, dried to 14.5%, good bushel weight. Ex-farm collection, weighbridge 3 miles away. Can load lorries. 40 tonnes available, will sell in 10t lots.

    £168from Briarfell Farm
29. News · How-to · Jul 4

    Rotational grazing, explained by someone who actually does it

    Grass grows grass — everything else is bookkeeping. Eleven years of rest-and-rotation on a wet hill farm, mistakes included.

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