AGP Executive Report
Last update: 9 hours agoRegenerative & climate-smart crops: Carlsberg Denmark says it’s boosting purchases of regenerative barley and is now buying regeneratively grown wheat to cover its wheat needs by 2027, pushing more farm supply toward regenerative practices. Crop resilience & diversity: Scotland’s James Hutton Institute is helping launch the UK’s Novel and Underutilised Crop Network to move lesser-grown crops into mainstream, resilient food systems. Food security & water-linked farming: A Philippine coastal farm model keeps mangroves and uses tidal rice paddies and wetlands to produce food as development pressures wetlands. Markets & costs: USDA’s latest cost outlook warns 2027 production costs will stay elevated across major crops, driven by higher seed, chemicals, labor, machinery and rents—not just fuel and fertilizer. Labor & safety: Washington state fined a Yakima Valley contractor nearly $700,000 over farmworker protection violations affecting 1,200 workers. Farm tech & learning: U.K. researchers found strawberry “ripeness” cameras can misread color due to lighting and camera processing, a caution for automated harvest systems. Wheat & harvest updates: Oman expects about 9,000 tonnes of locally grown wheat in 2026, with procurement already near half complete.
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