One does not need to be a weather scientist to know that New England has been subject to unusual and inconsistent weather for this part of the country this year.To many the weather, marked most notably by heavy, persistent rain, may seem a welcome change in 2023 after 2022 saw the worst drought the region had experienced in years.
Thirty-one counties in upstate New York are asking the federal government for disaster relief after crop damage from last May’s deep freeze recently came into full focus.Crops from the Hudson Valley to the Finger Lakes suffered extensive damage after temperatures plunged below 32 degrees on the early morning of May 18.
Harvest is underway in earnest in Saskatchewan, as four percent of the crop has been combined.It’s ahead of the 5-year and 10-year averages of 2 percent for this time of year.Crops Extension Specialist MacKenzie Hladun says the southwest is leading the way at 11 percent complete and the northeast is just starting at less at one percent.
This year's outdoor harvest on the Filderebene is currently in full swing. However, the weather is causing extreme problems for the vegetable farmers this year. "We have already had hardly any precipitation for eight weeks.
Dismal weather conditions have kept home consumption and retail sales buoyant this summer period. Growers continue to battle with extremely difficult ground conditions this season.
For farmers like John Daughtery, deer can really damage crops. For his Christmas tree farm, they eat the buds, and during this time of year, bucks batter trees with their antlers. With the amount of deer around, he's had to limit the types of tree's he plants.
The Minister of Agriculture, Mahinda Amaraweera, had instructed the Board of Agriculture and Agrarian Insurance to immediately start the assessment of crop damage that has occurred in this year’s Yala season.
Floods have damaged corn and rice crops in China's key northern grain-producing belt, traders and analysts said, with more rain in the forecast as another typhoon approaches, threatening to add to global food inflation pressures.
For more than a decade, beekeepers in South Dakota and around the country have been fighting against historically high annual colony loss rates of more than 30%.
This summer, farmstands in the Peach State are missing a key crop: peaches. That's not because the fleshy fruits have already been scooped up by chefs and home cooks to be made intojamsand pies, although they would if they could. Rather, the peaches never got a chance to grow at all.
Rain delays to the end of the soft wheat harvest in France may affect milling quality, though crop gathered before the wet spell was generally showing satisfactory readings, farm office FranceAgriMer said on Wednesday.
There is much uncertainty about the upcoming Belgian potato season. The problems in the spring and the difficult conditions now that harvesting has slowly begun are affecting yields.
As floodwaters subside in Northeast China, farmers in the country's "rice kingdom" are worried profits from this year's harvest are disappearing with them.Wuchang in the south of Heilongjiang province lies in the lower reaches of the Songhua River and was hard-hit by the floods.
Terrible harvest weather is taking its toll on the mental wellbeing of farmers, a farm chaplain has warned.Graham Miles - who isLightwave rural and agricultural chaplain for Suffolk -runs a special helpline for farmers under stress.
Although it feels like a stretch to think about, harvest is just around the corner — and within the blink of an eye, it will be time for combines to start rolling through fields. This point in the growing season is an opportune time to reflect on the current crops, their conditions, and what could lie ahead for harvesttime.
According to the recent data, a significant backlog of pending cropinsurance claimstotally approximatelyRs.2,716.10 crorewas revealedtill 2021-22under thePradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojna (PMFBY). The maximum pendency of crop insurance claims is inRajasthan, followed by Maharashtra and Gujarat.