Belgian leeks were very expensive last week. That is due to the issues the rainfall is causing in that country. "It's hard to harvest leeks at the moment, so there's much less supply, which drives prices up," begins Guy De Meyer of Demargro.
Artificial intelligence could be coming to a field near you if a Fort Lupton High School alum has his way.Randy Sasaki, a 1975 Fort Lupton grad, leads a company that hopes to create artificially intelligent crop monitoring systems to help agriculture get a jump on insects and other pests that can harm crops.
Fresh Direct has issued its crop report for 8th to 15th, November highlighting the effects of Storm Ciaran that caused chaos for many growers.It explains how the recent spate of storms, culminating with Storm Ciaran, has created huge problems for growers with excessive rain causing widespread flooding and making it difficult to harvest products from wet fields.
Potato growers and suppliers are facing tighter supplies of potatoes and a big hike in prices in the wake of the recent poorweather.The spot, or wholesale price, of potatoes was “currently at least double what you would expect at this time of year and looks like it’s going one way”, said Tim O’Malley, group MD of Nationwide Produce.
Équiterre, la Fédération de la relève agricole du Québec (FRAQ), la Coopérative pour l’Agriculture de Proximité Écologique (CAPÉ), Protec-Terre and Vivre en Ville have joined forces to launch Alliance SaluTERRE.
Sixty people turned up to harvest 1ac of beetroot on the farm of Joe and Sandra Burns in Killeagh, east Cork, on Saturday after a call-out on social media.The crop should have been harvested in October, but after the severe flooding in east Cork, the Burns couldn't get back into the field with machinery.
The Minister of Agriculture and Plantation Industries, Mahinda Amaraweera said that in this Maha season, the farmers of this country will have to face a severe drought in the coming Yala season, even though it has been raining in all parts of the country.
Miles Prodan, president and CEO of Wine Growers British Columbia, said climate change has fueled drought in the summer, flooding in the fall and freezing in the winter – a combination of weather factors that has cut B.C.’s grape output in half this year.
The strong winds that hit the Iberian Peninsula at the end of last week, especially in the eastern area, have caused damage to crops such as kakis, whose harvesting period is currently underway.
The current financial year (FY2023-24) may be the most challenging yet for the coffee industry since the Covid-19 pandemic, due to the twin challenges of deficient rainfall and declining prices of the plantation crop, plantation owners and executivesat coffee companies said.
Despite tomato prices rising, Dharmapuri farmers are disappointed as production has been affected due to fluctuating weather conditions and poor seed quality. In Dharmapuri district, tomato is one of the most cultivated crops, encompassing an area of over 6,000 hectares annually.
Michigan State University researchers will receive nearly $10 million in funding from USDA to bolster specialty crop production.The funding was announced as part of a $70.2 million investment in the Specialty Crop Research Initiative (SCRI), which is going to support 21 research and extension projects.
Over 11,750 acres of paddy fields, which were about to be harvested in the last Yala Season, have been destroyed by floods caused by heavy rains that have been experiencing for almost one-and-a-half months.
A Mason County apple orchard has experienced a total crop loss after a triple whammy of weather challenges. CBS Austin Chief Meteorologist Chikage Windler visited the orchard in October during what would typically be peak apple-picking season, but not this year.
Senior JD(S) leaders led by former minister and JD(S) core committee chief GT Devegowda on Sunday visited drought-hit villages in Mysuru and Hunsur taluks in Mysuru district on Sunday. The team during its visit instilled confidence among the farmers who had suffered a huge loss owing to the drought.
According to the iQonsulting yearbook, the volume of avocados shipped from Chile in the 2022/2023 season decreased by 30% over the previous season to 88,332 tons. This decrease was mainly due to the spring frosts in September 2022, but it did not prevent the country from being among the world's largest avocado exporters.