USA - July report now shows drought could trigger third largest loss
The July World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) from USDAisn’t a major market moving report historically, and the latest report was no different.
12.07.2022
12.07.2022
Hungary - Impact of record heatwave expected to reduce watermelon yield
The scorching heat and record high temperatures in Hungary over the past two weeks, just as the local watermelons season was starting, have caused the watermelons to ripen earlier, shortening the growing season but resulting in good sugar content and colour for the Hungarian melons.
11.07.2022
Germany - Due to the bad weather, there are problems with some plum varieties
At most a third of the usual volume - that is what the Agricultural Technology Center in Karlsruhe expects for the plum harvest. The reason was poor blooming weather in April. The month was simply too cold and too wet.
11.07.2022
India - Crop insurance for kuruvai; farmers fear a repeat of last season
Farmers who have taken up kuruvai cultivation this season fear that they have to see through it without crop insurance like the last time. In August last, the State government announced that crops, except paddy, cultivated during April to July were only eligible for crop insurance and the premium could be remitted till August 31, 2021.
11.07.2022
Canada - Hail crop damage claims above average in June in Sask
Crop damage claim numbers from June hailstorms in Saskatchewan are above normal. The president of the Canadian Crop Hail Association, Scott McQueen, says claim numbers are up but damage is generally light, although some areas had severe loss.
11.07.2022
India - Tea crop affected in north India due to rains
The tea producing belt of north India, comprising the regions of Assam and North Bengal, has been battered by the severe rainfall, according to Tea Association of India (TAI), an apex body of tea planters of the country.
11.07.2022
Italy - Huge crop losses expected due to prolonged heatwave
Italyis experiencingan unusual and prolonged heat wave and little rain this summer. Experts say it’s the worst drought in 70 years in the country and the government has been forced to declare a state of emergency in five northern regions until the end of this year to deal with the situation.
11.07.2022
USA - Central Valley farmers and drought stress
California farmers remain stressed about drought conditions and limited water that is also affecting their crop insurance protections. Those were a few of the issues raised by farmers Thursday as Rep. Jim Costa, D-Calif., a senior member of the House Agriculture Committee, held a farm-bill listening session in his home district.
11.07.2022
USA - Early detection of tar spot can help prevent corn yield loss
Crop disease specialists urge farmers to scout cornfields for tar spot now so fungicides can be sprayed in a timely manner to mitigate yield loss from the pathogen.
08.07.2022
Italy - Second year of biological control of Drosophila suzukii launched
Again for 2022, the Italian Ministry of Ecological Transition has authorized the release of Ganaspis brasiliensis, the parasitoid imported in 2020 by the Edmund Mach Foundation that fights Drosophila suzukii, the Asian fruit fly.
08.07.2022
Canada - Unpredictable winters causing significant damage to vineyards in Niagara region
The Niagara region is seeing some of its worst winter damage in17 years, with early estimates measuring around50 per cent of grape vines damaged. Chairof Grape Growers of Ontario Matthias Oppenlaender said the impact of extreme climate events ismore concerning each year.
08.07.2022
India - Cotton farmers faced losses in last kharif season
As farmers were demanding compensation for cotton crop last year in Hisar, the Economic Report of Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agriculture University (HAU), Hisar, has also suggested that the cotton farmers were indeed at a loss in the cotton belt of Hisar, Bhiwani, Sirsa districts etc.
07.07.2022
USA - West Texas farmers and ranchers fear the worst as drought
Lloyd Arthur can run his hand through the soil at his cotton farm and know what kind of year he’s going to have. His dry, cracked field is making him think this could be a repeat of one of the state’s worst years.
07.07.2022
USA - Corn ratings sink amid heat
Yesterday’s Crop Progress report saw corn ratings take a larger than expected tumble in USDA’s weekly update as dry conditions across the Eastern Corn Belt keep yield concerns alive and well despite all of the recent rains across the Heartland.
07.07.2022
Iceland - Southern farmers worried about potato fungus
Potato growers in southern Iceland are worried about the risk of potato blight for the second year in a row. Last year, potatoes in Þykkvabær were contaminated with blight for the first time in 20 years. Now, producers are keeping a close eye on this year’s crop to prevent another outbreak.
07.07.2022
India - Steps taken to prevent crop loss
Bengal, since the onset of monsoon in June, has received deficient rainfall in 15 of its 23 districts, raising the likelihood of crops loss in some places, officials said. Steps are being taken by the irrigation department to avert any crisis that may arise due to insufficient rainfall, they said.