A potato farmer said the wet weather had created the "perfect storm" for a reduced potato crop this year.Luke Abblett grows potatoes, sugar beet and barley on his Daintree farm in Ramsey in Cambridgeshire.
This past summer demonstrated that we are now locked into a new “Hot War.” Climate disruption is upon us.Might we learn lessons from how America mobilized to engage national security threats during the last century to help guide our decisionmaking about how to engage the current global warming threat?
For Saffron farmer Ashiq Hussain, the flowering of the crop has been in abundance this year and the yield is more than last year, thanks to late rains in the month of October.The 43-year-old farmer and his family have already plucked beds of the purple flowers in the five days in his village of Chandhara in south Kashmir’s Saffron belt of Pampore.
On a bright October morning, Margaux Hein crouched under the shady cover of grapevines. She held up a hefty bunch of a variety known as Autumn King – green berries nearly the size of ping pong balls.
University of California Cooperative Extension farm advisor Franz Niederholzer, an orchard systems expert involved with tree nuts and navel orangeworms, is finding “massive losses” in at least four counties due to a major infestation.
According to the Ulster Farmers' Union (UFU), severe flooding has been a "major blow" to farmers as crops have been severely damaged. The union said that many farmers have lost a "significant amount of crop" to the wet weather. It comes after a number of areas in counties Down, Armagh and Antrim were hit by heavy flooding.
The windstorm of recent days, which is forecast to continue for a few days more, is already causing significant damage to many crops in the Region of Valencia due to the strong gusts it has brought, according to La Unió Llauradora.
The NPPO of Morocco recently informed the EPPO Secretariat of the occurrence of tomato brown rugose fruit virus (Tobamovirus, ToBRFV – EPPO A2 List) on its territory. ToBRFV was first detected in October 2021 in the region of Souss-Massa and in March 2022 in the region of Dakhla.
Growers are warning of a potato shortage as they say this year’s harvest is the “worst in living memory”.The potato harvest is “rapidly turning into a salvage operation” as drills are underwater following recent flooding, the Irish Farmers’ Association has warned.
A new report shows the federal government is paying billions of dollars to farmers who are losing crops to extreme weather – and the payouts keep growing.From 2001 to 2022, U.S. farms received nearly $120 billion in crop insurance after climate-related crop failures, according to the nonpartisan Environmental Working Group.
Storms Ciaran (November 2-3) and Domingos (November 5-6) have caused significant damage to farms in the French region of Brittany. Gusts of over 160 km/h were recorded on the coast.
Climate change is not a distant threat; it’s a stark reality. Extreme weather events, erratic rainfall, prolonged droughts, and destructive storms are all part of the new normal.Agriculture, the bedrock of our society, is under siege, with farmers facing unpredictable growing conditions threatening their livelihoods.
Looking at his barren fields, Udai Lal Suthar (50) describes the severe agricultural losses he suffered this year. Both the vegetables and maize that he had cultivated did not survive, thanks to the unpredictable weather patterns and the resultant increase in pest infestations and viral diseases.
Korean fresh pear production is expected to decrease 20 percent in Marketing Year (MY) 2023/24 as adverse weather events struck orchards throughout spring flowering and into the summer. Supplies of high-quality pears are expected to be below average because of high rates of damaged fruit.
This year's Swiss potato harvest has been disappointing. Growers are expecting a drop of about a third compared with recent years. However, yields are still difficult to estimate at the moment.
Serbian blueberry growers lament a bad season of late spring rain and cooler summer weather that led to quality issues for the open field production during the 2023 harvest. Sladjana Vuković, CEO of the Serbian exporting company Srbovoće: “Generally, this has been a bad year for Serbian blueberry growers.”