This year has been a weather rollercoaster in many areas which has delayed corn dry down. In some areas, disease killed the corn prematurely which will affect dry down and harvestability.
The 40 kilometers (25 miles) between the towns of Kullu and Manali in India's northern Himachal Pradesh state take little more than an hour to travel on a scenic road following the Beas River.
The National Cereals and Produce Board (NCPB) has offered drying facilities and operational laboratories to test aflatoxin levels in food products.The move is a relief to cereal farmers as it will reduce post-harvest losses due to poor storage facilities.
The Board of Supervisors has approved a resolution requesting the Commonwealth of Virginia declare Culpeper County an agricultural disaster area due to the persistent drought.
The Mekong Delta region is working hard to protect millions of hectares of crops from drought and saltwater intrusion. Tran Ba Hoang, director of the Southern Institute of Water Resources Research, said at a seminar in Can Tho City on September 14 that the total rainfall in the delta this year is forecast to be around 1,350 mm, which is 13% lower than normal.
A new project will assess crop losses resulting from the movement of elephants in the Terai Elephant Reserve in Dudhwa-Pilibhit, Uttar Pradesh and implement mitigation measures.
A lingering drought affecting more than 80% of Texas is causing wildfires, hurting agriculture and drying up water supplies throughout the state.This year’s drought comes less than a year after Texas experienced one of its worst droughts on record in 2022.
Drought continues to dominate a large part of North America from Mexico through the central United States to more than two-thirds of Canada’s Prairies. Some of this dryness has been ongoing since 2020 and this year’s dryness affected many crops, including spring wheat, canola, sunseed, corn, sorghum, soybeans, sugar beets and a host of other crops.
For reasons of food security and economic incentive, farmers continuously seek to maximize their marketable crop yields. As plants grow inconsistently, at the time of harvesting, there will inevitably be variations in quality and size of individual crops.
Around 70 percentof the state's potato crop has already been harvested, butsomeproducers are now delaying their work out of fear the unseasonable heat could cause the harvested potatoes to rot.
Over 4.25 lakh hectares in villages along the Punjab, Haryana and Pakistan borders of Rajasthan are under cotton cultivation. However, pink bollworms have been eating into the profits of cotton farmers for the past few years. This year, it has taken a more serious turn.
Farmers in western Massachusetts are busy harvesting their crops but they said their yields have been heavily impacted by major rainstorms, the latest of which hit the region last week.
Due to the heavy rain that fell in Tangalle area in the last few days, a large number of paddy fields that were about to be harvested were flooded.The Minister of Agriculture Mahinda Amaraweera recently engaged in an observation tour of the area to get a firsthand look at the damaged paddy fields and discussed with the farmers who own the damaged fields.
Officials have asked the public to watch for feral pigs in eastern Florence County and perhaps neighboring Marinette County, especially during hunting season.Feral pigs descend from domestic swine that have escaped into the wild.
This year, many of those trees are bare, but farmers and apple experts are still urging people to visit orchards around the state — even those that can’t offer a pick-your-own apple option.
In Bolivia’s highlands, where life's rhythm largely follows the agricultural calendar, a crop emergency is unfolding and pushing families to the brink of hunger, Save the Children said.