The current state of this year’s potato harvest in Ireland and the UK has seen significant challenges. A primary concern is the slow progress due to persistent poor weather conditions, with an estimated 20-30% of the national main crop yet to be harvested.
Floods now submerging large swathes of Paraguay's agricultural land and disruptive, heavy rain elsewhere in South America's rice growing regions are raising concerns about the development of the 2024 harvest.
Agriculture Minister Kakani Goverdhan Reddy has urged farmers not to worry in view of deficit rainfall as the State government will help them in every manner.“In all, 103 mandals in seven districts are facing drought and concrete measures have been taken to mitigate the suffering of drought-affected farmers.
Almond producer Select Harvests swung to a $114.7 million loss for the year to June as it sold smaller volumes at lower prices. However, it sought to reassure investors that performance would improve this year due to lower production in the US, the world’s-largest market, which would push prices back up.
The European Commission presented its proposal for a support measure worth €51.7 million to directly support Greek and Slovenian farmers affected by natural disasters. Coming from the agricultural reserve 2024,€43.1 million will be allocated to Greece and €8.6 million to Slovenia.
The fruit guild has already begun to estimate the possible damage that the intense rains that affected the central and southern areas of Chile last weekend will have on the 2023/2024 season.
In what’s shaping up to be a dire situation for Ireland, the Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) has declared this year’s potato harvest “the worst in recent memory.” Sean Ryan, chair of the National Potato Committee, paints a grim picture of the season turning into a “salvage operation” due to unrelenting rainfall.
Europe’s flooded fields are delaying sugar harvesting and threatening to wipe out 15 percent of beet crops still to be collected in France, one of the region’s biggest growers of the sweetener.
2022 brought a stretch of cold weather and wind chills, leaving farmers to feel the effect today.Corndodgers Farm in Headland has cancelled their Satsuma Day due to crop loss, claiming it to be a result of the uncharacteristic cold last year.
As many as 208,916 farmers suffered heavy losses in Barisal division due to Cyclone Midhili, which made landfall in the coastal districts on Friday (November 17).A total of 19,655 hectares of crops were damaged in six districts, amounting to losses of around Tk182 crore.
It was early November and Scott Haerr still had 2,500 acres of corn to harvest on his farm in south-westOhio.The harvest should be much further down the road – a dry spring was followed by adequate summer rain and heat, and then a dry fall meant no obvious delays were in the forecast.
Severe flooding in East Africa has intensified an already dire humanitarian situation, leaving millions of people in need of assistance, warns the International Rescue Committee (IRC). Shashwat Saraf, East Africa Emergency Director at IRC, sheds light on the escalating crisis and its devastating impact on vulnerable communities.
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With Kern County being one of the many places in California that Governor Newsom proclaimed a state of emergency, federal assistance will unlock funding for recovery in areas that were affected by Hurricane Hilary, in this case, a park in the Kern River Valley.
This year has given ample evidence of how emerging economies are bearing the brunt of climate change. In February and March, Cyclone Freddy raged across the Indian Ocean for 5 weeks and made landfall 3 times, killing more than 1,400 people in Malawi and elsewhere in southeastern Africa.
In our final Crop Watch installment of 2023, our agronomists reflect on what has been a grim autumn disrupting drilling and herbicide applications to wheat. With wheat drilling unlikely to resume in some areas, thoughts are turning to the choice of spring cropping, although seed availability may be a deciding factor.
South Africa's burgeoning blueberry industry is encountering significant challenges due to weather disruptions, port delays, and power outages, while neighboring countries like Zimbabwe are rapidly expanding their blueberry production.