Temperatures remain mild at well above 20°C in southern Italy despite the brief passing of the Ciaran storm. The prolonged heat is worrying producers, as they are afraid some crops will suffer because, in a normal situation, some species would enter a period of vegetative rest after losing their leaves, but it is not happening in some areas.
The Berkane region in eastern Morocco, one of the country's strongholds of citrus production, is preparing to launch its early clementine export campaign. According to Mohammed Saidi, CEO of Vergers Domaine Tarifit, the region's growers are experiencing the same problems as those in Souss Massa, but are faring better.
Sweet potato supply from North Carolina, the state that is responsible for two thirds of US sweet potato production, is down significantly this season. “The crop is down about 30 to 40 percent in acres, which translates into a production decrease of 30-40 percent,” says Norman Brown with Wada Farms.
UPA-UCE Extremadura has described this season's chestnut harvest as "catastrophic", with an almost 40% drop in the production compared to the previous year. "The impact of climate change has been very significant in chestnut producing areas this season."
A potato farmer said the wet weather had created the "perfect storm" for a reduced potato crop this year.Luke Abblett grows potatoes, sugar beet and barley on his Daintree farm in Ramsey in Cambridgeshire.
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For Saffron farmer Ashiq Hussain, the flowering of the crop has been in abundance this year and the yield is more than last year, thanks to late rains in the month of October.The 43-year-old farmer and his family have already plucked beds of the purple flowers in the five days in his village of Chandhara in south Kashmir’s Saffron belt of Pampore.
On a bright October morning, Margaux Hein crouched under the shady cover of grapevines. She held up a hefty bunch of a variety known as Autumn King – green berries nearly the size of ping pong balls.
University of California Cooperative Extension farm advisor Franz Niederholzer, an orchard systems expert involved with tree nuts and navel orangeworms, is finding “massive losses” in at least four counties due to a major infestation.
According to the Ulster Farmers' Union (UFU), severe flooding has been a "major blow" to farmers as crops have been severely damaged. The union said that many farmers have lost a "significant amount of crop" to the wet weather. It comes after a number of areas in counties Down, Armagh and Antrim were hit by heavy flooding.
The windstorm of recent days, which is forecast to continue for a few days more, is already causing significant damage to many crops in the Region of Valencia due to the strong gusts it has brought, according to La Unió Llauradora.
The NPPO of Morocco recently informed the EPPO Secretariat of the occurrence of tomato brown rugose fruit virus (Tobamovirus, ToBRFV – EPPO A2 List) on its territory. ToBRFV was first detected in October 2021 in the region of Souss-Massa and in March 2022 in the region of Dakhla.
Growers are warning of a potato shortage as they say this year’s harvest is the “worst in living memory”.The potato harvest is “rapidly turning into a salvage operation” as drills are underwater following recent flooding, the Irish Farmers’ Association has warned.
A new report shows the federal government is paying billions of dollars to farmers who are losing crops to extreme weather – and the payouts keep growing.From 2001 to 2022, U.S. farms received nearly $120 billion in crop insurance after climate-related crop failures, according to the nonpartisan Environmental Working Group.
Storms Ciaran (November 2-3) and Domingos (November 5-6) have caused significant damage to farms in the French region of Brittany. Gusts of over 160 km/h were recorded on the coast.
Climate change is not a distant threat; it’s a stark reality. Extreme weather events, erratic rainfall, prolonged droughts, and destructive storms are all part of the new normal.Agriculture, the bedrock of our society, is under siege, with farmers facing unpredictable growing conditions threatening their livelihoods.