Wolters, founded in Braunschweig in 1627, will shut its production site after failing to find an investor in insolvency proceedings, with around 90 employees informed of the closure. The shutdown follows the sharpest annual contraction in German beer consumption since reunification in 1990, with sales reported down about 6% to roughly 7.8 billion litres.
Türkiye’s Karaman province expects an apple harvest exceeding 700,000 tonnes this year, up from 100,000 tonnes after adverse weather last year. More than 30,000 seasonal workers are picking about 15,000 tonnes daily, with careful handling determining whether fruit qualifies for export.
Vietnam exported $9.1 billion of seafood in the first nine months of 2026, up 11.4% year on year. Purchases by China and Hong Kong climbed 33% to $2.3 billion, while shrimp and pangasius remained the largest product groups.
Russia produced 26.13 million decalitres of rectified ethyl alcohol in January-August 2026, down 21% year on year. August output fell 61.17% as weaker alcohol demand, higher costs and expensive financing prompted producers to reduce purchases and inventories.
Clean Label Project detected lead in 99% of 100 cat foods purchased in the United States, but said the comparison was not a safety assessment. Fish-based and dry foods showed higher concentrations of some contaminants than other products in the sample.
Japan’s wood pellet imports from Indonesia rose from 66,460 tonnes in 2023 to 402,310 tonnes in 2025. Environmental groups say weak supply-chain controls could allow material linked to natural-forest loss to continue entering Japan.
Kazakhstan imported 13,900 tonnes of poultry meat and edible offal from China in the first half of 2026, lifting China from sixth to second place among suppliers. Lower average import values helped Chinese products gain ground as shipments from Russia, the United States and Ukraine declined.
Brazil’s average raw milk price remained nearly stable in August at R$ 2.8869 per liter, even as milk collection increased 3.86%. Recovering domestic production, elevated dairy imports and rising feed costs are creating pressure on farmgate and wholesale markets.
Poland shipped 1,675 tonnes of pears to Belarus in September 2026, about 84% of its 2,002 tonnes of pear exports to destinations outside the European Union. Extra-EU shipments fell roughly 19% year on year and are down about 64% from September 2023. Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Libya, Mongolia and Norway split the remaining volume.
IFFO expects global fishmeal supply to fall below 4.6 million metric tonnes in 2026 and fish-oil supply to decline to 1.15 million tonnes. Peru’s prolonged fishing closure and Coastal El Niño conditions remain the main risks, although improved output elsewhere provided some relief in August.
Heat and drought reduced Europe’s wheat, corn and barley production outlook by 16.7 million tonnes, while India recorded its weakest monsoon since 2015. India retains substantial public grain stocks, but low reservoir storage threatens winter planting, farm income and regional food prices.
India plans to establish 75,000 cooperative dairies and strengthen 46,000 existing operations under White Revolution 2.0. The program seeks to improve milk collection, processing capacity and producer incomes as national milk output reaches about 248 million tonnes.
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