Thirty years ago, the weather on Annie Doerr’s family ranch felt reliable. Now that she’s taken over from her parents, it’s been anything but. In recent years, drought has made finding good pastureland for beef cattle to graze increasingly difficult.
Spring equinox is fast approaching, on 20 March, but the changing seasons are playing havoc with UK wildlife and crops. This comes after England and Wales had their warmest Februarys on record, according to the Met Office.
Vietnam is grappling with significant agricultural challenges as saltwater intrusion threatens the Mekong Delta, leading to potential annual crop losses nearing $3 billion. This phenomenon, exacerbated by factors such as sea-level rise, droughts, tidal fluctuations, and reduced upstream freshwater flow, is putting critical agricultural areas at risk.
On Tuesday, U.S. Senators Maria Cantwell (D-WA) and Patty Murray (D-WA), along with Representative Kim Schrier, M.D. (D, WA-08), announced that sweet cherry growers in Washington state are now eligible for up to $500,000 in federal Emergency Farm Loans followinga formal disaster declarationfrom U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack for the 2023 cherry harvest season.
Amid increasing distress among farmers, the State government on Wednesday initiated measures to identify the extent of crop area damaged due to unseasonal rains andhailstormacross the State over the last few days.
The New Hampshire Department of Agriculture, Markets, and Food’s Crop Loss Program recently opened to receive applications from New Hampshire producers. The Crop Loss Program allocates $8 million to help farmers who suffered crop losses because of weather-related damages in 2023.
A farmer in Kelowna working to sew the seeds of sustainability to feed generations to come says the government and industry need to strive for change.Jennifer Deol, of There and Back Again Farms in Kelowna, is faced with significant crop loss after yet another year of unprecedented weather events.
Pecan trees are popular landscape trees in Mississippi and many areas of the southeastern United States. Most homeowners expect pecan trees to serve a dual purpose, providing both shade and tasty nuts.
The 2024 Horticulture Crop Input Prices report highlights significant challenges for Irish field vegetable growers. The report, which provides up-to-date facts about specific input prices in January 2024 compared to 2023, states that input price inflation in the field vegetable sector continues at a rate of 5.1%, totalling over 43% since the first report in March 2021.
The supply of Spanish iceberg lettuce is falling and is expected to plummet in the coming weeks due to the adverse effects of the higher temperatures this winter and the alarming impact of drought.
Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) senior leader T. Harish Rao has demanded the Telangana government to provide financial assistance to farmers who suffered huge losses due to unseasonal rains.
Almost half of the total cultivable fields in Trashigang dzongkhag have been left fallow leading to a loss in crop production and increasing human-wildlife conflicts.According to records from the dzongkhag agriculture office, of the 15,372 acres of dry land, about 8,285.07 acres are left fallow. Of 2,217.14 acres of wetland, 556.36 remain uncultivated.
Climate change may be creating an uncertain future for coffee production, but it’s also having a negative impact on biodiversity which has a trickle-down effect.A study explores the interplay between climate change, land use change, and their impact on pollinator biodiversity, revealing significant implications for global crop pollination.
After North Alabama experienced near-record temperatures last week, a drop in temperatures Monday night will lead to the threat of a widespread freeze.Many farmers across North Alabama and Southern Middle Tennessee will take precautions to prevent crop loss.
The amount of damage to agriculture in eight regions has reached P1.75 billion as the El Niño phenomenon intensifies, according to the Department of Agriculture.DA spokesman Arnel de Mesa said the damage covered 32,231 hectares of farm lands, with at least 29,437 farmers displaced.
Mango growing is progressing steadily in southern Senegal, but with a few complications that are worrying growers, says Aminata Dominique Diouf, a mango grower and exporter based in Nema.