Soybean producers in the Midwest and Upper Midwestern areas of the United States need to keep an eye on the weather this wee as harvest season continues to monitor the potential for frost in the forecast that could threaten struggling soybean crops.
After floods led to huge losses, Himachal Pradesh fruit and vegetable growers are considering taking out huge loans for the next crop cycle. Floods and incessant rain in July not only damaged the infrastructure of the state but also affected the quality and quantity of crops such as apple, plum, pear, tomato, cauliflower, beans, capsicum, chilli, cabbage, eggplant, peas and broccoli, causing huge losses.
Moderate to heavy rains coupled with high velocity winds during the night have made paddy growers anxious as it is anticipated that they might opt for early harvesting to avoid damages caused by the inclement weather instead of waiting for the moisture content in the grain to drop to the optimum level.
The 2023 U.S. corn and soybean harvest is in full swing with farmers now getting a better sense of crop yields following a growing season characterized by extended periods of dry weather across much of the Corn Belt.
The year 2023 dawned an exciting one for the husband-and-wife team of Sebastian and Colleen Hardy, owners ofLiving Roots Wine & Co., which produces wines in both Colleen Hardy's native New York and Sebastian Hardy's native Australia.
Industry sources claim that exports of fresh blueberries by Peru in the 2023/2024 campaign will register a decrease due to the weather. The Association of Blueberry Producers of Peru (Proarándanos) projects a drop between 15 and 20% in volume compared to the previous campaign, when it reached 285.000 tons.
Temperatures in the Wiregrass are finally straying away from the summertime feeling and starting to feel more like fall.As temperatures continue to lower, the possibility of a freeze is in the back of a farmer’s mind.“The fruit is already going into production,” said John Aplin, owner of Aplin Farms.
China suffered direct economic losses of 308.29 billion yuan ($42 billion) over the first nine months of 2023, the government said, from natural disasters such as torrential rains, deadly landslides, freakish hailstorms and a string of typhoons.
On his land in a mountainous area in the region of Chefchaouen, in northern Morocco, Khaled Kouskou, a business consultant turned farmer, complains that his efforts to cultivate 10 hectares owned by his family are being thwarted by poor rains.
Findings from a recentstudyconducted in Assam suggest that bats can have a positive impact on rice ecosystems. In the study, conducted over the Sali (winter) rice season of 2019, insectivorous bats were found to help reduce damage to rice crops by suppressing pests, thus protecting yield.
A don, Prof. Tunji Iyiola-Tunji, has advocated the adoption and cultivation of flood-resistant seed varieties to curtail harvest losses due to flooding.Iyiola-Tunji, a fellow at the National Agricultural Extension Research Liaison Services (NAERLS), made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Lagos.
Grain farmers say their harvest has been a disaster this year after months of wet weather.Fields of crops are waterlogged and harvesting that should have been finished by now is not completed.
Shila Devi Tharu, a 47-year-old farmer in western Nepal, frequently loses her rice crop to floods. “Almost every year my rice fields are inundated, damaging the crop partially or fully,” says Tharu, who cultivates 1.2 acres of land in the Karnali river basin of the Bardiya district.
Former chief minister O Panneerselvam urged the state government to make a reassessment of crop loss in delta districts due to non-availability of water during the Kuruvai season and provide Rs 30,000 per acre to the farmers as compensation.
As of 5 p.m. Sunday, agricultural losses caused by Typhoon Koinu in Taiwan had totaled approximately NT$344.56 million (US$10.72 million), according to the Ministry of Agriculture (MOA).
The Insurance Development Forum (IDF), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the German Government, and the government of Uzbekistan rcecently launched a €1.9 million project to develop and implement a sovereign risk transfer scheme for climate-vulnerable farmers in Uzbekistan.