Food & Farming
Where it stands
As of 3 August 2026
Food prices and a coming El Nino keep the pressure on, even as grain and beef supply quietly loosen.
Forces in tension
coffee up a quarter, biggest US grocery jump in 50 years, one in three cannot afford a healthy diet
El Nino set to intensify from August; UK drought halved some vegetable yields
Senate tariff bill advances; China builds its own herd; cattle border politics
soybeans slid on favorable US weather; December corn recovered near $4.92
US herd grows first time since 2018; beef futures already falling
What to watch
Whether the El Nino forecast to intensify from August actually hits staple harvests across Africa and Asia.
This board is the synthesized picture of 9 recent Food & Farming editions. It describes where things stand — the forces, not a forecast, and never advice on what to do.