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04.07.2023

Canada - Producers dealing with gophers and grasshoppers

Local farmers have been dealing with a couple of pests that have been causing crop damage over the past couple of weeks.According to Agriculture Saskatchewan, producers have reported grasshoppers and gophers are causing issues.

04.07.2023

India - Saffron farmers loss significant percentage of crop to porcupines

Farmers in saffron rich Pampore area in south Kashmir's Pulwama district are facing a peculiar problem due to the presence of myriads of porcupines in their saffron farms, sprawling over hundreds of Kanals.

04.07.2023

Germany - Ripe to overripe stone fruit from Spain due to heavy rainfall

The heavy rainfall in Spain meant, among other things, that the water content of the fruit was so high that it arrived in Germany partly ripe to overripe and rotted more quickly, as Philipp Lang, managing director of Früchte Lang from Hengersberg, tells us.

04.07.2023

USA - Georgia crop progress and condition report

According to the National Agricultural Statistics Service in Georgia, there were 5.9 days suitable for fieldwork for the week ending Sunday, July 2, 2023. Precipitation ranged from no rain to 2.5 inches.

04.07.2023

Kenya - Introduce crop insurance to cushion farmers, senators say

Senators are pushing for the national government to introduce crop insurance for North Rift maize farmers to cushion them from crop losses.The development follows a petition by Hilary Kerich, a farmer in Bomet, that highlighted the disastrous effects of the maize lethal necrosis, which has left farmers in the area staring at crop losses running into millions.

04.07.2023

India - Moradabad chilli farmers incur heavy losses as crops get damaged due to heavy rains

Huge quantities of chillies were destroyed due to heavy rains resulting in heavy losses for Moradabad chilli farmers."After taking a loan, I sowed chilli crops in my field and watered them timely. also applied sprayed medicines so that the crop do not get destroyed.

03.07.2023

USA - What caused Georgia’s catastrophic peach crop failure?

On a Monday morning in June, a few dozen peach pickers from the Mexican city of Guadalajara strode down rows of trees, in an orchard near Byron.They walked one to a side, covering each row of the grove efficiently, with blue bags slung across their chests to collect the fruit, chatted in Spanish and unloaded their hauls into a large bin on a trailer hitched to a Chevy pickup at one end of the grove.

03.07.2023

USA - Violent derecho flattens corn crops in Illinois with 100-mph winds

Apowerful derechowith 100 mph winds slammed into the Midwest on Thursday night,causing damage to corn and other agricultural crops inIllinois.Senior Meteorologist Andrew Pritchard, with Nutrien Ag Solutions, was in Farmer City when the weather overtook the area at an extremely fast-moving speed.

03.07.2023

35% fewer Dutch and Belgian cherries expected

For two weeks now, tasty cherries have been back in farm stalls along country roads in the Netherlands. "They're of outstanding quality this year, but there are fewer kilos. That's due to frost and poor pollination because of the wet weather during the flowering period.

03.07.2023

India - 16,900 farmers await crop loss relief in Mahendragarh

Over 16,900 farmers have been awaiting compensation for their crop loss for the past several months, despite having an insurance cover under the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Beema Yojana (PMFBY).

03.07.2023

Australia - Major milestone in management of banana Panama TR4 disease

Queensland’s ongoing management of Panama disease tropical race 4 (Panama TR4) will be led by the banana industry from 1 July 2023. Panama TR4 was first discovered in Queensland in the Tully Valley in 2015.

03.07.2023

Europe is to have its second lowest pear crop in 10 years

According to initial estimates released today at Interpera, the international pear congress held in Lleida, the forthcoming European pear harvest will be one of the smallest in the last 10 years, with a forecast around 1,900,000 tonnes.

03.07.2023

USA - California's second lightest Valencia crop in history

California is moving deeper into the second lightest recorded crop of Valencia oranges in its history. The state estimate for the citrus fruit is 16.2 million cartons this season--that follows the lightest recorded crop of 15.4 million cartons in 2021. Compare that to 1997’s crop for example which was as high as 48 million cartons.

03.07.2023

USA - Heavy June rains dampen outlook for Maine’s harvest later this year

Drenched fields this summer are leaving Maine farmers floundering to catch up with yearly production expectations. With heavy rainfall and low temperatures, agricultural production has taken a hit early this season, and some summer staple crops are paying the price.

30.06.2023

New Zealand - New Zealand Apples and Pears response to government assistance for cyclone impacted growers

Cyclone Gabrielle impacted nearly half of apple and pear growers in Hawke’s Bay. It has been a tough time for growers, horticulture, and the wider Hawke’s Bay and Tairāwhiti community.

30.06.2023

Chile - These rains have been the worst in 30 years

Table grape, cherry and some blueberry fields in Chile are still wet, muddy and inaccessible after last week’s heavy rain and flooding. Vegetable producers are especially hard hit, while some producers have lost everything early reports from Chile indicate.

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