First North American Bee Strategy and Aid for American Farmers
From the Ag Information Network, I’m Bob Larson with your Agribusiness Update.
**Four major North American beekeeping organizations released the first-ever North American Bee Strategy.
It’s a continent-wide plan to protect honeybees, strengthen professional beekeeping viability, and safeguard food security across the U.S. and Canada.
The strategy lays out four priorities, including improving monitoring, treatment, and research on pest diseases.
Other priorities include supporting applied research, shared research infrastructure, and streamlined scientific collaboration.
The goal is to build a more unified and sustainable honey market.
**Just in time for the holiday season, the cranberry production forecast is in.
Cranberries are harvested ahead of the holidays and widely available from October to December.
The remainder of the crop is processed into products sold year-round.
With one barrel equivalent to 100 pounds, the 2025 U.S. cranberry crop is forecast at 8.13 million barrels, a decrease of 9% from last year but close to the five-year average of 7.95 million barrels.
**The Trump administration plans to announce an aid package for American farmers soon, as well as a deal on Chinese soybean purchases.
Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins didn’t provide further details.
Reuters reports the administration has said for months it would issue assistance for U.S. farmers ravaged by low crop prices and trade disputes.
Rollins says we’ll have an announcement probably in the next week or two on what that’s going to look like.
