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Aerial view of a large modern pig farm of long white-roofed barns cut into wooded hills, with access roads and ponds
Livestock

China's Muyuan sells 15% more hogs in September despite sow cuts, at prices below cost

Beijing's capacity campaign has shrunk the national sow herd 6.5%, but more piglets per sow and heavier pigs have kept pork output rising

Oct 12, 2026
Sheets of natural rubber hanging over a wooden rack to dry beside a rubber plantation in Thailand
Softs

Natural rubber hits 13-year high as Asian supply thins, China stocks fall

Synthetic butadiene rubber still trades nearly a fifth below natural rubber in Shanghai, reversing March's order, as ANRPC cuts its 2026 output forecast and Chinese stocks slide

Oct 12, 2026
The sheds and smoking chimneys of a palm oil mill set among hillsides planted with oil palms in Kunak district, Sabah
Palm Oil

Malaysia palm oil stocks seen at record in September as output surges, exports slump

Bloomberg survey median of 3.45mn tonnes would top the 2018 peak; the El Niño dry spell over the palm belt has yet to reach the crop, with MPOB data due on 12 October

Oct 7, 2026
An opened tin of whole-kernel sweetcorn on a white worktop, with a can opener and the cut lid behind it
Sweet Corn

Bonduelle European profit falls 22% as Chinese sweetcorn glut lingers

EU imports of Chinese sweetcorn have fallen 64 per cent since Brussels imposed anti-dumping duties, but the French canner says the market is still working through the stocks

Oct 6, 2026
Bags of Koshihikari rice from Niigata and Chiba stacked on a supermarket shelf in Japan, with yen price labels and a red-and-blue notice limiting rice purchases to one bag per household per day
Rice

Japan's Ichibanya first-half profit falls 17% as rice costs bite

CoCo Ichibanya operator keeps full-year forecast as Tokyo retail rice prices fall for a ninth month

Oct 6, 2026
A green tractor pulls a wide disc harrow across a bare, dry arable field on the flat Great Hungarian Plain under a summer sky
Canola/Rapeseed

Rapeseed sowing stalls in Hungary, Serbia and Romania after driest summer since 1946

Stations on Hungary's Great Plain recorded as little as a quarter of their previous lowest July-September rainfall as the growers' deadline for the crop arrives this week

Oct 5, 2026
A rice dealer sits behind open sacks of loose rice at the front of a shop stacked to the ceiling with branded bags of rice, under a painted Kannada shop sign
Rice

Asian rice prices up a third on El Niño stockpiling as India's crop shrinks

Thai benchmark rallied from May on Philippine and Malaysian reserve-building; Indian prices now rising after weakest monsoon since 2015, with record stocks capping the gain

Oct 5, 2026
A line of round cotton modules wrapped in yellow plastic on bare red soil in a harvested field under a clear blue sky
Cotton

Bunge cotton chief proposes Brazil price benchmark as exports outstrip US

World's biggest cotton exporter still hedges on an ICE contract deliverable only in US-grown fibre

Oct 5, 2026
Rows of young crop in dark red soil at Table Cape in north-west Tasmania, with the Table Cape lighthouse above Bass Strait beyond
Potatoes

McCain seeks A$15/t cut from Tasmanian potato growers as it shelves €1bn German fry plant

Canadian fry maker cites overcapacity on both sides of the world; Belgian growers' 2026-crop contracts about 18% below last year's

Oct 2, 2026
A pale cacao flower with red-streaked petals hanging on a thin stalk from the trunk of a cacao tree
Cocoa

Record September rain soaks Ecuador cocoa belt as El Niño arrives early

Guayaquil logs its wettest September since 1961 and a Quevedo station nearly six times its normal rain, as growers and exporters warn of flower loss and frosty pod rot ahead of the March-April crop

Sep 28, 2026
Grain pouring from a loading spout into the open hold of a red bulk carrier alongside a grain terminal, seen from above, with the waters of Tsemes Bay and harbour cranes behind
Wheat

Black Sea wheat exports seen halving as port attacks split world prices

Russian export offers fall to lowest since April 2024 while US Gulf wheat hits three-year high; Russia now quotes $268 a tonne from the Baltic against a notional $210 at Novorossiysk

Sep 24, 2026
A field of potatoes with the haulm burnt off and brown, ready for lifting, under a blue sky with hedgerows and green fields beyond near Clough, County Down
Potatoes

Northern Irish potato packer Glens of Antrim collapses with loss of 95 jobs

Administrators appointed nine months after accounts showed a £596,000 profit and a positive outlook; growers left with potatoes in the ground and no buyer, MP says

Sep 23, 2026
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