Australian food producers are finding innovative new ways to limit losses and create alternative uses for waste, as evidenced in a new report titledCrop loss/waste on Australian horticulture farms, 2022–23released on 25 June 2024.
An update on farmers struggling to save their crops. We showed you last week how the lack of rain is interrupting this year’s growing season.According to the Extension Director for Beaufort County, things are not looking good here. He says nothing has been confirmed yet, but farmers could take a loss this year.
Changes are being made to help wineries experiencing devastating crop losses.The Penticton Chamber of Commerce sent a letter to the provincial government back in February, calling for changes to manufacturing and licensing requirements after an extreme cold snap decimated the wine industry.
"Due to the early blossoming, the cherry harvest is also particularly early this year," explains Claus Schliecker, Chairman of the fruit-growing section of Landvolk Niedersachsen.
Before Russia's full-scale invasion, Ukraine stood as a prominent exporter of sweet cherries, with a substantial 89.5% of its exports directed to Belarus. However, the early 2022 occupation of Melitopol plantations in Zaporizhzhia Oblast has profoundly affected Ukraine's ability to sustain this export.
Saskatchewan Crop Insurance Corporation (SCIC) offers a full suite of business risk management programs including Crop Insurance, AgriStability, Livestock Price Insurance and the Wildlife Damage Compensation and Prevention Program.
Smallholder farmers in India are reporting crop losses due to erratic and extreme rainfall induced partly by climate change, according to a report by Forum of Enterprises for Equitable Development, an independent non-profit and Development Intelligence Unit.
High temperatures and weeks of clear skies might have you wondering when it’s going to rain. But for North Carolina farmers, the impact goes even further.As of Tuesday, central North Carolina has gone more than 18 days without widespread rain.
Channels of water snaking between rows of soybeans along the I-90 corridor.Bales of hay collapsed after torrential rain in northern Minnesota meadows.A biofuels refinery forced to shut down as an upriver dam threatened to break.
Climate science researchers have been concerned with amplifying feedback loops that exacerbate the effects of climate change. Amplifying or positive feedback loops are mechanisms that increase the warming effects caused by an initial event.
The old saying“rain makes grain”may hold true in many instances; however, this year’s excessive precipitation amounts early in the growing season have caused extensive crop loss in some areas of the Upper Midwest.
As the industry shifts its focus to the new crop, growing conditions for the next apple season in Poland were initially favourable, with fruit maturation occurring three weeks earlier than usual. However, a cold snap between April 20-23 significantly affected the orchards.
A southwestern Wisconsin farmer says when it comes to moisture, 2023 and 2024 are opposite extremes.Mike Berget says, “This time last year, we were wondering if we were even going to have a crop, and now this year, we’re wondering if it’s going to float away.”
In 2023, Italy, renowned for its rich agricultural heritage, faced a severe blow as extreme weather conditions wreaked havoc on its wine production. According to a recent report by the national statistics bureau, the country witnessed a 17% decline in wine production, marking one of the most significant drops in recent history.
Heavy rains are expected to continue in parts of central and southern China this week, battering regions where high precipitation has already led to loss of life and flood damage to crops.
For western Iowa farmers, growing-season concerns have morphed from drought in April to flooding in late June.Torrential rains dumped up to 15 inches of rain in two days in some parts of northwestern Iowa this weekend.