The state of food security in Namibia has significantly deteriorated as a result of a highly unfavourable agricultural production during the 2022/2023 cropping season.It is further projected the recent harvest will be exhausted between August and December 2023, leaving many households in a precarious position.
The Southern Tier and Finger Lakes is among half of New York currently applying for a federal Agriculture Disaster Designation from the USDA. New York Senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand are pushing for the designation, saying that early season frost in May has caused a massive burden for growers across the Empire State.
The images on the news and across social media of the wildfires on Hawaii’s Maui island are startling ones to see. At press time, more than 270 buildings have been destroyed and at last count, there have been up to 36 deaths related to the wildfires.
According to Gabriel Figueroa, the director of Alpine Fresh, this season, the traditional varieties have quality and size issues, as sizes and volumes are smaller. In fact, the main projections indicate that there will be a 10% to 20% decrease in this year's production.
Farmers are a harried lot in Mahendragarh district following the outbreak of Helicoverpa armigera bollworm on their standing crop of bajra (millet). The bollworm is causing damage to its sitta (fruiting part) of bajra.
The farmers, whose standing crops have been damaged by the recent torrential downpours across the erstwhile Adilabad district, are awaiting compensation from the state government, which has not even ordered the assessment of crop damage in the state.
As Argentina’s 2023 citrus season is coming to an end, they have high demand in their main export markets, but due to the drought and many challenges they are unable to provide enough supply.
The US Department of Agriculture has revised the corn yield estimate for marketing year 2023-24 (September-August) to 175.1 bushels/acre from 177.5 bu/acre, according to the Aug. 11 World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates report.
One does not need to be a weather scientist to know that New England has been subject to unusual and inconsistent weather for this part of the country this year.To many the weather, marked most notably by heavy, persistent rain, may seem a welcome change in 2023 after 2022 saw the worst drought the region had experienced in years.
Thirty-one counties in upstate New York are asking the federal government for disaster relief after crop damage from last May’s deep freeze recently came into full focus.Crops from the Hudson Valley to the Finger Lakes suffered extensive damage after temperatures plunged below 32 degrees on the early morning of May 18.
Harvest is underway in earnest in Saskatchewan, as four percent of the crop has been combined.It’s ahead of the 5-year and 10-year averages of 2 percent for this time of year.Crops Extension Specialist MacKenzie Hladun says the southwest is leading the way at 11 percent complete and the northeast is just starting at less at one percent.
This year's outdoor harvest on the Filderebene is currently in full swing. However, the weather is causing extreme problems for the vegetable farmers this year. "We have already had hardly any precipitation for eight weeks.
Dismal weather conditions have kept home consumption and retail sales buoyant this summer period. Growers continue to battle with extremely difficult ground conditions this season.
For farmers like John Daughtery, deer can really damage crops. For his Christmas tree farm, they eat the buds, and during this time of year, bucks batter trees with their antlers. With the amount of deer around, he's had to limit the types of tree's he plants.
The Minister of Agriculture, Mahinda Amaraweera, had instructed the Board of Agriculture and Agrarian Insurance to immediately start the assessment of crop damage that has occurred in this year’s Yala season.
Floods have damaged corn and rice crops in China's key northern grain-producing belt, traders and analysts said, with more rain in the forecast as another typhoon approaches, threatening to add to global food inflation pressures.