The combined economic cost of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma could reach $290 billion, equivalent to 1.5 percent of the U.S. gross domestic product, U.S. forecaster AccuWeather said in a report Sunday.
The consistent adverse weather conditions and the decline in the number of farmers have led to a significant shortage of the Kerr's Pink potato variety, a favorite in Cork and Kerry. This scarcity has resulted in many supermarkets and independent grocers running out of stock.
Some tough news for those in Michiana wanting local peaches this year.Indiana and Southwest Michigan farmers suffered a loss of their peach crop this year, after a cold start to the year. With a combination of fragile peach buds and a cold snap earlier this year, we'll have to do without local peaches this summer.
Ukrainian farmers are facing a severe setback this spring due to extraordinary weather conditions. Persistent nocturnal frosts are poised to decimate nearly half of the nation's blueberry yield, as reported by EastFruit. Some agricultural enterprises are bracing for losses of up to 90%.
The first nectarines of the 2024 campaign are already being harvested in the Spanish province of Badajoz, and just like with peaches and flat peaches, the production volumes are expected to be normal.
Catastrophic floods in Brazil will have long-lasting impacts for agriculture, with soaked soils making it harder for farmers to plant crops including rice and wheat for next season.
U.S. Sen. John Kennedy (R-La), a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, today introduced the Quality Loss Adjustment Improvement for Farmers Act. The bill would give farmers more flexibility by improving the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation (FCIC)’s ability to set discounts for farmers who experience crop loss.
The recent cold weather in southern Michigan vineyards this spring has created a need for growers to consider adjusted insect and disease control programs for frost-damaged vineyards.
In early May, overnight frost damaged fruit trees across Ukraine, leaving farmers grappling with significant losses. The owner of a farm in the Dnepropetrovsk region recounted that after a warm Spring, a frost on May 5th caused extensive damage.
Papaya supply is "a disaster", says a South African retail buyer, "for the third season running. The papaya crop had been expected to pick up in March and April, but in my twenty years I've not seen papaya supplies this low."
According to deputy commissioner Divya Prabhu, up to 1.1 lakh farmers in the Dharwad area have benefited from input subsidies totaling Rs 108.1 crore spread across ten installments.
An unusual boost in plant productivity can foreshadow severe soil water loss.NASA satellites are following the clues.Flaring up rapidly and with little warning, the drought that gripped much of the United States in the summer of 2012 was one of the most extensive the country had seen since the yearslong Dust Bowl of the 1930s.
The harsh summer of 2024 has left Kerala’s agriculture sector reeling under heavy losses, a block-wise assessment of the situation carried out by the State Agriculture Department has found. In direct and indirect terms, the losses have been pegged at over ₹500 crore.
The last sugar mill inTexasshut its doors last month, citing a lack of water. Farmers were left to plow under the crop and wonder what drought would claim next.That forced farmer and cattleman Michael England to destroy his 500 acres of sugarcane.
On the one hand, farmers in Karnataka are facing distress due to severe drought, and on the other, sudden thundershowers are bringing fear of losing standing crops and death of cattle due to lightning.
Late blight is an old foe of humans. This disease catalysed the devastating Irish potato famine that began in 1845.It is caused by a fungus-like pathogen, which quickly kills a potato plant and turns the crop into inedible mush.