The old trailer with a floor made of wooden planks – packed with state officials troubled that many of the farm’s apples never had a chance this season due to a late frost – rolled up the slight incline on Friday, surrounded by small trees with bright green leaves that, nevertheless, looked naked.
On Friday, growers in Eastern Canada were on watch and preparing for the onset of what was then called Hurricane Lee. While rain is something to watch, what apple growers and shippers such as Van Meekeren Farms in Kentville, Nova Scotia really are looking out for are wind gusts and at press time, they were predicted to be some 60-90 kilometers/hour.
Evan Schutt plucks a Honeycrisp apple from a tree on his 50-acre farm on Plank Road in Penfield."You see this russeting?" Shutt asked, pointing out a discolored, gritty band around the middle. "No one's gonna want to bite into that."
John Thaemert, who’s well into his 60s, has been farming the high plains near Sylvan Grove, Kansas all his life. The worst drought Thamert’s ever seen destroyed much of his wheat crop this year.
TheU.S. Department of Agriculturereminds communities, farmers and ranchers, families and small businesses in the path of Hurricane Lee that USDA has programs that provide assistance in the wake of disasters.
A sudden pitter-patter of rain and hailstones woke NayeemWani up from his sleep late Saturday night.He immediately looked out the window and saw ice-pellets bouncing after striking the ground.
California’s grape industry takes a huge loss in the aftermath of tropical storm Hilary. According to the California Farm Bureau Ag Alert,heavy rains and strong winds to vineyards duringthe peak of harvest season last month affected over one-third of unharvested grapes, the equivalent of approximately 25 million boxes.
Geoff Boyle, president of the P.E.I. Tree Food Growers Association, as well as general manager of The Grove Orchard and U-Pick in Warren Grove, says he's "alittle anxious and nervous" about what the tropical storm system will bring.
The spatio-temporal variation of rainfall has wreaked havoc for the farmers of the tur belt. Farmers of Kalyana Karnataka are grappling with crop wilting due to a below par monsoon in June and August. Most regions are still experiencing drought despite brief spells of rain.
The Western corn rootworm has made its way to farms in Salmon Arm, Armstrong and Enderby, and poses a significant risk to crops in the area, Susanna Acheampong, a Kelowna-based entomologist with the B.C. Ministry of Agriculture, said Friday.
This past May, unseasonably low temperatures led to frost damage and impacted farms and wineries in the Southern Tier, Finger Lakes, Hudson Valley, Central New York and the Capital Region.
Priyank Kharge, Minister for Rural Development and Panchayat Raj and district in charge, directed the officials to conduct an eye estimation survey to assess crop loss due to scanty rainfall during the current Kharif season.
More rain today for the Western Cape which has appreciated the few days of sunshine in between cold, rainy spells when bees can finally venture into orchards (where they are furiously working and even ill-tempered with hunger), but producers say they're looking ahead at the possible effects of a below rainfall El Niño summer predicted for South Africa.
As has been reported, the more limited supplies of grapes out of the state are Hurricane Hilary related--recently, the California Table Grape Commission reported that an estimated 25 million boxes of table grapes were lost because of the weather event.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has announced it is awarding about $6.5 million to 22 organizations to educate underserved, small-scale, and organic producers on farm risk management and climate-smart farm practices.
According to a first emergency estimate carried out by the Association of Farmers of Valencia (AVA-ASAJA), yesterday's storm caused significant damage to crops and agricultural infrastructure in several regions of Castellón and Valencia, especially in the Plana Baixa, Vall d'Albaida, and Los Serranos.