Following good spring bloom weather, Minnesota saw a roller coaster of weather events this season and in turn, its apple crop is down. “It was a difficult growing season,” says Aaron Brand of Brand Farms in Farmington, Minnesota.
South Africans are always happy to welcome the summer season, but for the commercial agriculture sector, the transition to summer also ushers in some of the biggest natural risks that farmers face, causing billions of rands in losses every year.
A survey by the district administration in Bijnor showed that around 11,000 farmers there have incurred heavy losses as monsoon floods affected crops over 3,000 hectares.As many as 12 mainstream and seasonal rivers, including the Ganga and its tributaries Malan, Kho, Ramganga, Gagan, Baan, Dhara, Pili, Nakta, Banaili, Chhoiya, etc., flow through the district.
One of the world’s worst pests is infesting crops all over California. There are seven active quarantines spanning the length of the state, but experts say those affecting San Bernardino and Riverside counties are especially serious.
Centre has decided to depute a team for the inspection of drought-hit areas in the state. The decision has been taken following the state government's request to extend support to the farmers of the drought-hit areas.
The peak of Peru’s blueberry harvest has started, according to an exporter, as the latest statistics up to week 45 (6-12 November 2023) shows conventional volumes down by 51% and organic 61% lower compared to last season. Their saving grace this year are higher prices that will help to cushion the losses, say exporters.
NSW Farmers applauds the Minns government’s new $250 million Drought Ready and Resilient Fund, designed to assist farmers in preparing and responding to drought conditions.
A new heat wave has been concerning citrus growers in São Paulo state. Temperatures are higher than those registered in the last wave, in September, and the heat is lasting longer. The weather may affect the 2024/25 production, but it is still early to estimate possible impacts.
From 2001-21, crop insurance payments in the United States rose 500%. The likely cause? Climate change, according to a new report from theEnvironmental Working Group.Five of the top reported reasons for crop losses in the U.S. are rain, hail, heat drought and freezes.
The CottonAssociation of India (CAI) has lowered its cotton production estimate for the current season (October 2023-September 2024) to 294.10 lakh bales (170 kg each) in its October estimate.
The effects of climate change pose a major challenge for cereal production in many regions.In a studypublished inNature Reviews Earth & Environment, ZALF scientists have investigated how warmer temperatures, increased carbon dioxide levels and changes in water availability affect globally important cereals such as wheat, maize, millet, sorghum and rice.
Between wavering crop prices and high production costs, financially, farmers are dealing with a lot right now.Now, many in Georgia and other farming states are raising the alarm about white-tailed deer, which can cause millions of dollars' worth of damage to the state’s most profitable crops.
The South American tomato moth has become a major headache for gardeners and farmers in the southern regions of Kazakhstan, leading to a disappointing season with a reduced harvest of flavourful greenhouse-grown tomatoes.
Ice storms in Texas, wildfires raging throughout Europe and killer floods from China to India. This year has been the hottest summer in human history with extreme weather events so frequent that the World Meteorological Organisation called them "the new norm."
After two bouts of heavier than predicted rain over the past two weeks across central Chile, cherry producers have started to see some cracking in early varieties of Santina and Royal dawn reportedly seeing up to 20% damage.
When Peter Swinkels started farming low-bush blueberries 44 years ago, he barely intervened with the natural growth of the plants."It used to be … I almost refer to it as a hunter-gatherer process," he said, standing on a dirt road running through his farmland in Belmont, N.S.