MEXICO CITY -- Mexico could strike at $4 billion in annual imports of US corn and soybeans if President Donald Trump escalates a trade spat with new tariffs, officials told Reuters this week, and it is studying how to reduce the pain of such a move.

DAVAO CITY -- Small banana growers have received complaints from buyers of some of their harvest from the Giant Cavendish Tissue Culture Variant 218...

THE tobacco harvest is expected to dwindle this year as farmers shift to other crops in preparation for the nationwide smoking ban, and regulators are exploring alternative markets including export destinations, where prices are firming up due to interest in alternatives to smoking that are still based on tobacco.

SYDNEY -- Relieved farmers in Australia’s export-focused west are celebrating good rainfall at the end of the winter wheat-planting window, although conditions remain parched in the eastern states.

DES MOINES -- More than 14% of $140 billion in annual US farm exports have been or will likely be hit by retaliatory tariffs in trade disputes with major buyers such as China and Mexico, a top US trade negotiator said on Thursday.

MOSCOW -- Leading Russian agricultural consulting firms SovEcon and IKAR have cut their estimates for the country’s 2018 grain harvest due to cold wet conditions in the key spring wheat regions of Siberia and the Urals.

PARIS/BEIJING -- Times are good for oak tree growers in France.

GUIMARAS — This island province off the southern part of Iloilo has the reputation for growing the sweetest mangoes in the country, but its production level has remained low.

DAVAO CITY — Cacao farmers in Mindanao, particularly in the Davao Region, see New Zealand as a fresh market with the recent appointment of Mindanao Business Council (MBC) chair Vicente T. Lao as the country’s honorary consul for Mindanao.

DAVAO CITY — The United Nations’ (UN) Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and New Zealand government have sealed a new project focusing on the provinces of Maguindanao and North Cotabato.

NARITA — You can’t choose your neighbors, as Japanese organic farmer Takao Shito knows all too well after a decades-long battle against Narita — the country’s second busiest airport.

A NONGOVERNMENT organization is hoping to promote forest honey harvested by indigenous peoples (IPs) by providing production and marketing support to gatherers, giving them...