Farmers in Midlands province have turned their attention to this year's winter wheat crop after experiencing severe crop losses during the summer season due to prolonged dry spells.
Lawmakers on the House Committee on Agriculture, Food Resilience and Forestry are working to advance abillthat would provide potentially millions of dollars in aid for fruit tree growers before the end-of-week “crossover” deadline.
In 2023, chestnuts registered a 52% drop in quantities and a 35% drop in value. The data was published by Associazione consorzi castanicoltori Appennino emiliano-romagnolo coordinated by Renzo Panzacchi.
At the dawn of spring, the apricot trees of HDC Lamotte in the Drôme valley have turned pink. This year, the blossoming occurred 10 days ahead of schedule. "We had a lot of cold weather early in the season and with the mild weather in February, the apricot trees went into bloom earlier than usual.
More frequent and severe global heatwaves will disrupt future supply chains around the world, a new study has found.This is expected to trigger a domino effect of losses in major economiesincluding China, which could see GDP loss of up to 5 per cent in just over 25 years, according to the international team of scientists behind the study.
The British Columbia government says farmerswill get an extra $70 million to replant and strengthen fruitorchards and vineyards after two years of weather-related disasters.Premier David Eby says the funding will boost the province's existing $15 million Perennial Crop Renewal Program, launched last spring to help more than 200 farmers replace diseased and unproductive plants.
Farmers of Gadag are worried as prices of jowar have seen a sudden decline since the past ten days. Following the downward trend of red chilli prices, farmers are forced to face consecutive losses amid the drought situation. While the price of jowar was about Rs 7,000-8,000 per quintal in the last month, the present price has dropped to Rs 2,500-3,500.
Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini has released a compensation amount of 87.95 crore rupees to farmers of 12 districts that suffered cotton crop damage due to floods in 2023. These districts include Bhiwani, Charkhi Dadri, Fatehabad, Gurugram, Hisar, Jhajjar, Jind, Mahendragarh, Rewari, Rohtak, Sirsa, and Sonipat.
The impacts of climate change in central California’s agriculture hub are causing such drastic increases in irrigation demands that annual water use over the past decade now matches the volume of the region’s biggest reservoir, a new study has found.
British Columbia grain farmer Malcolm Odermatt says all he can do is pray for rain this spring after repeated droughts sabotaged his harvest last year.Odermatt, who is also the president of the BC Grain Growers Association, has been working with his father since 2012 to farm about 2,000 acres of land in the Peace region of B.C.’s northeast.
Warming winters pose a growing threat to Michigan vineyards. Milder temperatures disrupt the natural dormancy cycle of grapevines, causing them to lose cold hardiness earlier than usual and become more vulnerable to late-season cold events.
Iriel Edwards is a first-generation farmer from Louisiana. In her short tenure as a farmer, Edwards, 25, has already seen extreme drought, freezes, flooding and excessive heat.
Farmers should scout wheat fields for stripe rust this spring and have a fungicide application at the ready. Stripe rust of wheat was confirmed early this year in Louisiana, says Mandy Bish, University of Missouri plant pathologist.
Many people have been enjoying the warm days West Michigan has seen recently, but apple farmers are starting to worry. Nick Schweitzer’s family has been growing apples in the Sparta area for more than 150 years.
In Southern Africa, the El Niño weather phenomenon is a significant factor, driving humanitarian needs. Its effects, including drought, erratic rainfall, flooding, and high temperatures, vary across different areas within countries.
One of the first indicators of how bountiful a fruit harvest will be in British Columbia comes months before anypeaches, apricots or nectarines start fattening on trees. Like many other farmers, Jennifer Deol of There and Back Again Farms in Kelowna, B.C., cuts off some peach branches and brings them into a warm greenhouse to see how well the buds bloom.