A climatologist says it remains to be seen how much of the U.S. corn crop will be impacted by weather this year.Al Dutcher with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln says the Eastern Corn Belt should offset losses in the Great Plains.
The heavy rainfall earlier this week has caused heavy losses to the cotton crop in Narnaund, Baas, Hansi and Barwala regions of the district.The Agriculture Department report has revealed that 49,212 acres of cotton crop has suffered above 26 per cent losses, of which the crop on 18,700 acres has reported damage above 50 per cent.
The latest Saskatchewan agriculture crop report says harvest has just begun in the province.Provincial crops extension specialist Matt Struthers says only a few fields have been combined so far this month, mostly in the west central and southwest regios.
Extensive loss has been reported on 146.9 hectares of agricultural land in Thiruvananthapuram district with 1,803 farmers bearing the brunt of the inclement weather, according to preliminary estimates by the Agriculture department from July 31 to August 4.
Multiple rainstorms have a southern Illinois farmer tallying up crop losses.“In the last three weeks we’ve had around 18 inches of rain that came in 6 different events.”Josh Harris who farms near Clay City Illinois tells Brownfield the rain has caused severe flooding in their bottom ground with an estimated 20-25% crop loss so far.
Risotto rice production in Italy's Po River valley is under severe threat as a historic drought continues to cause paddy fields to turn bone dry and become toxically salty.Farmers say harvests of the rice used for risotto could be damaged for years by the increased salt content, which is seeping into the earth.
Crop conditions in Nebraska dropped three-percent for both corn and soybeans last week and are likely to drop even more after this week’s extreme heat and dryness. Farmers say with continuedhot and dry conditions yield potential will be severely hurt.
The UK heatwave has caused fruit and vegetables to die on the vine as growers fear the drought and further hot temperatures could ruin harvests this year. Fruit and vegetable suppliers have been counting their losses after record temperatures in July caused crops to fail.
Pakistani farmer Sajid Ali wades glumly through his flooded cotton field after days of torrential monsoon rains let up, surveying the irreversible damage. “My crop is almost totally destroyed, all six acres of it.
Minister for Revenue R. Ashok on Thursday said that compensation for the crop loss suffered by the farmers due to excessive rains/floods was now being disbursed within a month.
Parts of Massachusetts are now in the midst of a severe drought, according to the most recent drought status map in the state. That news comes in the midst of a week in which the heat index is supposed to skyrocket, causing even hotter and drier conditions.
As much of Europe bakes in a third heatwave since June, fears are growing that extreme drought driven by climate change in the continent's breadbasket nations will dent stable crop yields and deepen the cost-of-living crisis.
Over 91.91 lakh farmer applications have been received this Kharif season in Maharashtra under the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bhima Yogna (PMFBY), marking a sharp rise from the 84.07 lakh applications received under the scheme last year.
Bending their backs and working hands to the bone, farmers of Tuscany, the heart of Italy’s wine and oil industry, are struggling to salvage as much as possible of this year’s crop as sweltering heat keeps pouring down on their backs.
Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal on Tuesday demanded that farmers be compensated for the loss suffered by them after being forced to sell their moong crop at a price which was a few thousands rupees below the MSP of Rs 7225 announced by Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann.
A research team led by the University of Missouri has recently found a new method of assessing stress in plants: measuring levels of reactive oxygen species (ROS) – a once maligned collection of molecules which are produced by anything that uses oxygen (including animals, plants, and humans), and were now discovered to have a crucial role as a communication signal indicating when plants are stressed out.