All is not peachy in Maine’s peach orchards this year.A spell ofbitter cold weatherlast February, a day and a half of high winds and temperatures reaching 18 degrees below zero, resulted in total crop failure this summer.
While wildfires in British Columbia caused tens of thousands of people to evacuate, this weekend Southern California was drenched by its first tropical storm in decades. On the same day, an earthquake in Ventura County caused widespread shaking.
Each of the four GLOW region counties have been included in a federal disaster declaration for a May freeze event.Orleans County was designated as a primary natural disaster area, while Genesee, Livingston, and Wyoming counties were named contiguous disaster counties.
The U.S. Crop Watch corn and soybean fields last week endured one of their driest collective weeks of the last couple months, though the increasingly familiar theme of cooler temperatures prevented any sizable decline in yield expectations.
Dozens of New York counties have been designated as a primary disaster area by the U. S. Department of Agriculture after a May freeze impacted grape growers, federal officials said.
The Agriculture Insurance Board has paid farmers 2.362 billion rupees as compensation for crop damage in the four previous farming seasons, excluding the 2023 Yala season, Chairman of the Agriculture and Agrarian Insurance Board, Madduma Bandara Weerasekera, said.
It has been estimated that total crop losses caused by rodents each year could feed 200m people. However, it is important that all wildlife is protected while controlling rodents, Éanna Ní Lamhna told a Teagasc Signpost webinar on Friday 18 August. Ní Lamhna is communications officer with the Campaign for the Responsible Rodenticide Use (CRUU), which supports best practice and responsible rodent control in order to protect wildlife from rodenticide (rat bait) exposure.
Temperatures in many parts of China are still high. Weather forecasts warn that more than 20 provinces will experience prolonged 'sauna days' with temperatures well in the thirty degrees Celsius and humidity above 50%. The high temperature brings not only hot weather but also droughts and floods caused by deviations from normal temperature and precipitation.
Market garden operators got some insurance help this year with the promise that more comprehensive weather-loss protection is coming. Severe hailstorms that swept through central Alberta last summer destroying fruit and vegetable crops led to renewed calls for better insurance protection for market gardens along the lines of programs available for major crop producers.
Producers who suffered livestock losses because of recent natural disasters — including extreme heat — may be eligible for the livestock indemnity program, said Shanna Schulz, U.S. Department of Agriculture Farm Service Agency executive director in Madison County.
With US crop insurance premiums reaching a record high in 2022 to $21.5 billion, the segment witnessed an underwriting loss due to challenging growing conditions amid widespread drought, reports AM Best.
"Water covers 71% of the planet's surface, but only 3% of it is suitable for consumption and agriculture, and its consumption grows at a rate twice that of the population. If we do not change our habits, global water demand could increase by 50% by 2030," the World Economic Forum warned.
Since the beginning of August, the country's top grain production province has been hit hard by floods caused by typhoons. This has resulted in significant damage to vital crops including rice, soybeans and corn. Even after the floodwaters receded, concerns over crop rescue remained. Groups of sci-tech workers in agriculture were arranged by local governments and provincial science institutions to guide farmers in affected areas to save crops and reduce losses in a scientific way.
This year, parts of North India have witnessed incessant rainfall, disrupting normal life and causing devastation in its wake. Several roads were blocked and many people were stranded because of the landslides triggered due to heavy rains.
A week of continuous rain caused waterlogging in Chattogram as well as severe flooding in all of its upazilas save Fatikchhari, leaving approximately 50,000 hectares of agricultural land submerged and resulting in a staggering financial loss of Tk 31,108 crore.
A local entomologist with the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture has received numerous reports of fall armyworms inTennessee. Despite their growing presence in the state as they migrate north, concerns should remain low about their impact on local lawns and row crop farms.