The monsoon has unleashed a trail of destruction with several house collapses, road accidents, and an alarming around 1,000 cases of trees falling across different parts of Goa. Amidst this chaos, the agriculture sector has been hit hard, with crop damage expected to be reaching record levels.
Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense (Foc) poses a significant threat to banana crops as a lethal fungal pathogen. The global spread of Foc underscores the formidable challenges associated with traditional management methods in combating this pathogen.
California organic pear harvest is close to kicking off. In the Sacramento Delta region, harvest is expected to start this week, followed by the more northern located Lake County closer to August 7. It is a bit later than usual due to the recent high temperatures the state experienced.
Federal Agriculture Minister Cem Özdemir (Greens) has called on the European Commission to provide crisis aid for German fruit and wine growers. He justified this on Monday at a meeting with his EU colleagues in Brussels with "frost damage of the most massive kind" this spring. The financial aid was therefore "urgent".
If you’ve suffered excessive livestock death losses and grazing or feed losses due to recent wildfires, you may be eligible for disaster assistance programs through the USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA).
The state government has sought a report from the Department of Agriculture on the impact and losses of scarce rain on crops. The overall rain deficit in the monsoon season has reached minus 41 per cent, and around minus 75 per cent in the last 10 days.
Farmers in eastern Missouri are assessing crop damage after EF0 tornadoes and heavy rains moved through Warren and Jefferson Counties earlier this week.“There are fields of corn laying down and the biggest thing was probably the 4 to 9 inches of rain in 45 minutes or less.”
A handful of farmers in Innisfil are dealing with flooded crops due to last week's heavy rain and culvert construction on Highway 400 and Simcoe County Road 89.Laura Tasca and her husband, James, own 180 acres of crops on their Innisfil farm, which resembled a lake over the weekend with roughly 100 acres flooded.
Severe drought followed by heavy rains caused crop damage of Rs 500 crore in the state between March and June.The loss incurred in this month has not been calculated.However, even the compensation for last year remains in arrears.
The weather in Portugal has proven an unstable factor when it comes to the cultivation of kiwiberries, says Filipe Gomes, export manager for Portuguese fresh produce exporter Twinkle Green: "So far, the mini kiwi season has been going on with ups and downs. In the north of Portugal, the weather has been very unstable.
Lleida's pear production official estimates have turned out to be too optimistic compared to the reality that farmers have observed on their farms at the beginning of the harvest season.
Summer storms are bringing not just rain and high winds to the prairies but also hail.This year, heavy rain, hail, funnel clouds, and even tornado warnings seem to be a prominent occurrence across the prairies.
TheAnnual Crop Report for the County of Montereywas released Tuesday showing a decline in crop production and overall profit.County officials say multiple factors, including last year’s wet winter, are to blame for the $285 million decrease.
A crop health measurefor potato derived from satellite and weather-based data can minimise the discrepancy between actual crop losses and insurance payouts to ensure more precise compensation.
Crops and livestock across the state continue to take a beating as California farmers work to reduce impacts of a lingering heat wave that has increased their costs and jeopardized production.
As drought continues to intensify in North Carolina, the corn crop is shriveling up. More than 90% of the state’s crop is in fair condition, or worse, according to USDA’s Crop Progress report published July 15.