The recent flooding has caused a loss of up to five billion dollars worth of crops in both Victoria and New South Wales, devastating the farming community.Chair of Grain Grovers, Brett Hosking, explained the far reaching effects the flooding has had in his local community of Quambatook in northern Victoria and beyond.
Pests and diseases have caused crop loss up to 80 percent in some farms in Nigeria on an estimation of 1.5 to 200,000 hectares of land in 2022.The crops mostly affected include; maize, rice, sorghum, millet, soybean, groundnut, cowpea in thirty-three states including root and tubers, fruit and vegetables and tree crops.
One year on from a freak hailstorm, farmers in parts of South Australia are still counting their losses.The storm cell on October 28 last year was declared an "insurance catastrophe" by the Insurance Council of Australia, with more than 60,000 claims across three states.
Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel on Friday announced Rs 630 crore relief package for crop loss due to heavy rainfall during monsoon season.Heavy to very heavy rainfall lashed Saurashtra, Central and South Gujarat region in July and August, which damaged crops.
Nathan Dorn, who farms near Firth south of Lincoln, said he’s already cutting back on spending for new cattle and next year’s crop due to lower yields and increased costs for seed, fuel and fertilizer that he estimated at $13 an acre.
Farming communities in Iraq have seen their wheat, vegetable and fruit harvests decline for the second year in a row because of severe drought conditions. According to a new survey by the Norwegian Refugee Council - ahead of the UN climate change conference (COP 27) in Egypt next month- households throughout the country will be increasingly vulnerable.
From overflowing culverts to damaged roads and crop loss, last week’s heavy rain caused extensive damage in some villages across Sanguem.In Margawada, small culverts began to overflow and the gushing waters almost washed off the road, rendering it unmotorable for vehicular traffic.
While heavy infestations of spotted lanternfly on grapevines — especially in successive years — can result in their demise, most vines may be able to survive lighter infestations with few ill effects.
“Citrus managed to get through this year fine and depending on rainfall, we’ll make it through our next season. But that remains to be seen. It’s still a critical situation with water.”So says Dale Murden from Texas Citrus Mutual of the current situation of Texas and water--how much of it there is essentially and how this affects growers.
A newPlowprint reportfrom World Wildlife Fund (WWF) reveals that 1.8 million acres of grassland habitat in the Great Plains of U.S., Canada, and Mexico were plowed up in 2020, primarily for row crop agriculture.
Wheat crops across New South Wales are in the main expected to have minimal yield losses to disease thanks to successive applications of fungicide coupled with good varietal resistance.
The INLD has fielded Congress rebel Kurda Ram Nambardar, who has been in the forefront of the farmers’ agitation on the issues of compensation for damaged crops and canal water in the Balsamand area, which is part of the Adampur Assembly segment.
Weed control is the topic this week with challenges controlling ryegrass in winter barley and blackgrass in earlier-drilled cereals in the drier east.This is the first season that agronomists can used cinmethylin to tackle blackgrass in wheat while aclonifen makes its debut in winter barley crops.
The frequency of hailstorms is generally low in small geographic areas. In other words, it may be very likely that hailstorm occurrences will vary between neighboring locations within a short period of time. Besides, a newly launched insurance scheme lacks the data. It is, therefore, difficult to sustain a sound insurance program under these circumstances, with premium rates based on meteorological data without a complimentary adjustment process.
In drought-hit Iraq, six out of 10 households have had their access to drinking water disrupted and a quarter of farmers have seen crop yields drastically fall this year, said a survey published Monday.
Florida is seeing a drop in tangerine/mandarin production following Hurricane Ian. But, there’s still plenty of good fruit. “We’re still assessing our crops. We have groves in all of the major growing regions across the state.