The melon supply is currently shifting from Brazil to Senegal. The Central American melon season has started much too late.

As consumers wake up to the national debate of GMO labeling, possible links of high-fructose corn syrup to obesity, and larger dead zones caused by chemical runoff, another movement is building in the sidelines:

THE SOUTH AFRICAN SUPPLY AND DEMAND PROJECTIONS FOR GRAINS AND OILSEEDS FOR FEBRUARY 2021 ARE AS FOLLOWS:

Despite some signs of pressure, corn rootworm populations have been lower in recent years, according to Nicholas Seiter.

The banana market is stable in many countries, without unexpected peaks or dips in the demand.

Paul Overby believes in trial and error. Since 1993 he and his wife, Diane, have been running Lee Farms, the family farm spread over 1,400 acres (5.5 km sq) in North Dakota, near the US-Canada border. In that time they’ve changed course quite a few times: diversifying the grains they grow, starting to manage the soil according to individualised zones, limiting the tillage of the land, and experimenting with planting cover crops alongside their main commodity crops.