Crop insurance payments will likely vary this year, but economists say some farmers could walk away with some pretty good payments.Ag Economist Gary Schnitkey with the University of Illinois says most farmers will not have large payments but some could cash in.
Every year, Georgia farmers are left with millions of dollars in losses thanks to damage done by feral hogs. Across the country, according to the USDA, wild pigs cause more than $1.5 billion in crop damage.
Wild boars, peacocks, and sometimes even bison are destroying paddy fields, say some farmers of Bordem, Yedda, and Kuskem in Cotigao. The farmers have demanded that the government compensate them for the losses as paddy is their main source of livelihood.
Early reports indicate that the impact of Hurricane Otis, a Category 5 hurricane that landed near Acapulco early Wednesday morning, is minimal on produce.“Yesterday, I would have told you we were expecting to lose 1 to 1 ½ days of harvest due to the hurricane's path looking like it was going straight through Michoacan,” says Keith Slattery of Stonehill Produce Inc.
The Regional Department of Agriculture has announced that the presence of the ToBRFV (Tomato Brown Rugose Fruit Virus) virus is confirmed in Sardinia.Therefore, the following three delimited areas were established, the extension of which corresponds to the surface area of the sites (production greenhouses) equipped with physical protection in which the ToBRFV was detected.
Violent, sand-laden winds reaching speeds of up to 106 km hit Morocco's Atlantic coast, affecting crops, especially arboriculture and soft fruit. In Larache, the hardest-hit location, the winds swept away greenhouses and fruit. Zouhir Daissoria, from red fruit producer Rika, reviews the damage to red fruits and berries.
Agroseguro has reported that storm Bernard, which hit Andalusia on October 22 with heavy rains and winds that reached 100 kilometers per hour in some municipalities in the provinces of Huelva, Seville and Cadiz, has caused significant damage to various crops.
Upbeat last month in the hope for a bountiful paddy harvest, the farmers in Ganjam district now find themselves facing uncertainty due to lack of rain or irrigation water. Adequate water is imperative for the growth of the paddy crop during this critical phase.
What started as a normal year for farmers here in the Wiregrass took a drastic turn.“The heat in August and the drought for about six weeks did it in,” Henry County Extension Coordinator, Jimmy Jones said.
Manitoba Agriculture reports that for southwest Manitoba, “rainfall was inadequate, but temperatures were above normal during most of the season. Some crops were shorter than normal and many fields were variable in crop stage.
Across the world, the intensity and frequency of flooding events has escalated. In the last few months alone, record-breaking floods have pummeled New Jersey and New York, Libya, and Greece, killing thousands of people and causing widespread damage to infrastructure, farmland, and livestock.
Crop insurance companies are looking to drop some of their business in Texas because years of drought conditions have resulted in the filing of more claims.Joe Brown who has owned his crop insurance agency, Joe Brown Crop Insurance, for 18 years said insurance companies have done this before but not to this level.
Farmers in the West Midlands region say heavy rainfall from Storm Babet has left them facing hard choices.The ground is so wet they are unable to carry out work from harvesting the current crops to planting the next.
One of Andalucía's main production areas for chestnuts in the Serranía de Ronda has suffered a catastrophic harvest due to the drought affecting the region.Just 15% of the crop was harvested, around 750,000 kilos, in the Genal Valley when a good harvest usually results in 5,000,000 kilos.
The Bay of Plenty Primary Sector (Adverse Event) Coordination Group met on 20 October 2023 to discuss the El Niño implications this season. In September, NIWA declared El Niño conditions are present in New Zealand and predict these will remain throughout the summer with a 75 percent chance of continuing through Autumn 2024.
The USDA maintained soybean production in Brazil for the 2023/24 season at 163 million metric tonnes in its October update, projecting another record crop for the second consecutive season.