The storms recorded a few days ago caused considerable damages in a large area along the Ebro valley, with damages reported in 7 provinces of 5 different autonomous communities, including La Rioja, where hail hit the pear farms of Rincón de Soto.
In the next campaign, which will begin in mid-August, Spain's mango production, which is mainly concentrated in Malaga, will fall between 60 and 70% below its potential of 40,000 tons.
Despite rains the last couple of weeks in parts of the Corn Belt the latest drought monitor shows drought continues to grip a huge part of the Midwest. 64% of corn and 57% of the soybean crop is in D1 to D4 drought, just a slight improvement from week.
Agenetically modified fruit flycould mean the (near) end of insect-related crop loss for berry farmers.Researchers atNorth Carolina State Universityhave been developing a genetically modified fruit fly to stop these pests from destroying produce.
According to José Antonio García Fernández, the director of the Lemon and Grapefruit Inter-branch Association, the lemon campaign ended with a production of 1 million tons, i.e. 20% less than last year.
The heavy rainfall recorded last week in the northeast of the Iberian Peninsula was followed by a heat wave that has pushed the temperatures well above 40 degrees Celsius in many parts of Spain, and on Tuesday, the Murcian town of Jumilla recorded what has initially been identified as a thermal blowout.
For some North Dakotans, peaches are summer essential. The fruit is typically associated with the state of Georgia, but this year the crop suffered significant losses due to a warm winter followed by heavy frost. However, for lovers of peach cobbler, peaches and cream and peach sweet tea, the news is not all bad.
Around 2.40 lakh hectares of paddy area was feared damaged after getting flooded by incessant rains in several parts of Punjab, a senior official said on Friday. "Paddy area of 2.40 lakh hectares has been affected (because of rains) and out of which the crop over 83,000 hectares will be resown," said the official.
Farmers across our region are grappling with massive crop losses due to this week’s flooding. That includes dozens of farm operations at Burlington’s Intervale, who are picking up the pieces as they face a difficult road ahead.
The RMof Dundurn No. 314, about 30 kilometres south of Saskatoon,is calling on otherlevels of government to send disaster relief to farmers and ranchers in the area, according to a news release issued Wednesday.
The peach season is well underway in South Carolina, but because of late freezes, the crop isn’t looking too peachy.“There’s less peaches. We’re operating on 15 percent,” said Mandy Bodie, Operations Manager of Sweet Peach Roadside Stand in Lexington.
Flood water from the Connecticut River covered over 50 acres of corn, green beans, peppers, squash and other vegetables at Killam & Bassette Farmstead in South Glastonbury.
The federal and Saskatchewan governments have introduced changes to crop insurance offered by the Saskatchewan Crop Insurance Corporation (SCIC) in response to ongoing drought conditions and grasshopper damage impacting crop yields.
This week’s flooding left some New Hampshire farms looking more like lakes than agricultural land. “One of my fields was under eight feet of water,” said John Janiszyn, owner of Pete’s Stand in Walpole. “My son and my wife went canoeing on one of our fields.”
Farms across western Massachusetts are reporting near-total loss of their crops afterthis week's floodsin the region, and a little more rain is on the way.The Northeast saw heavyrainfalls that causedsignificant damage in Vermont, upstate New York, and western Massachusetts.
Last year the largest compensations were for the kiwi.Some greenhouses blew up last winter because of what the farmer Aquilino Fernández defines as a hurricane.Thanks to his insurance policy, he was able to collect compensation for both the harvest and material damage.