The Bay of Plenty Primary Sector (Adverse Event) Coordination Group met on 20 October 2023 to discuss the El Niño implications this season. In September, NIWA declared El Niño conditions are present in New Zealand and predict these will remain throughout the summer with a 75 percent chance of continuing through Autumn 2024.
The USDA maintained soybean production in Brazil for the 2023/24 season at 163 million metric tonnes in its October update, projecting another record crop for the second consecutive season.
The Karnataka government on Wednesday demanded Rs 17,901.73 crore in funds from the Centre to compensate farmers affected due to drought in the Kharif season this year.
Scientists at UK government-funded AgriTech centre, Crop Health and Protection(CHAP) and the John Innes Centre (JIC) are conductinggroundbreaking research to help control the pests while cutting the use of pesticides so that morecrops end up on consumers’ plates.
Making progress in the fields has been challenging in Kildare, as plenty of rain is making windows of opportunity to get work done very small. There has been 95mm of rain in October at the farm up to last weekend, with 32mm of that in the preceding week, while there does not seem to be any let-up in the forecast either.
The storm surge on the Baltic Sea hit Schleswig-Holstein especially hard on Friday and Saturday, and in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania the tide had also flooded shore areas and roads. 2,000 people were brought to safety from the flood waters.
The UK potato industry is grappling with an intensifying menace from wireworms. Currently, a perfect storm of risk factors seems to create optimum conditions for the pest to thrive.
Applications are now open for a new farmer relief fund started by the New Hampshire branch of the Northeast Organic Farming Association.It’s been a tough year for many local farmers, withintense rainsover the summer, and two deep frosts in February and May that wiped outappleandpeachcrops.
Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) grain committee chair Kieran McEvoy has called on the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue to provide targeted financial tillage support to farmers most in need, following “relentless” rainfall this year.
Indian farmers have faced consistent losses of Bt cotton crops due to pink bollworm attacks since the mid-2000s, when scientists found that the insect had become resistant to the genetically modified variety of cotton.
Kern farmers may have suffered close to $1 billion in crop losses when unseasonable rain hit the local vineyards and almond orchards in August, according to a new assessment being used to support the county's bid for federal disaster assistance.
Farmers always worry about the weather impacting their crops, from drought and heat to flooding, hail, and high winds. However, there’s another aspect of nature that is also a source of damage and loss for agricultural crops – wildlife.
Cheryl Nunes, co-founder of River Green Queens, was hoping the farm would be able to include lettuce, which is “a big draw,” in its farm shares and at farmers markets this year. Instead, after an unusually hot and dry summer, the farm lost thousands of dollars of lettuce and has to rely on other leafy greens, like arugula, to serve customers.
In its latest crop status report, the Plant Health Service of the Region of Murcia confirmed the presence of the orchid thrips (Chaetanaphothrips orchidii). "Based on a warning from a grapefruit producer in the Campotejar area (Molina de Segura), staff from the Plant Health Service checked out the fruit for damage and tried to confirm which pest was affecting it.
A violent storm hit Morocco over the weekend, accompanied by strong sand-laden winds reaching 106 km/h in some areas. The storms are attributed to "Storm Bernard", which is hitting the Atlantic coast.
Farms and crofts across Scotland have been battered by 70mph winds, heavy rain and major flooding. Arable farmer Amy Geddes, of Wester Braikie Farms, near Arbroath, Angus, said the reports on NFU Scotland’s eastern Scotland WhatsApp group were ‘awful’ and ‘heartbreaking’: “Farmers knew Storm Babet was coming.