The federal and Saskatchewan governments have introduced changes to crop insurance offered by the Saskatchewan Crop Insurance Corporation (SCIC) in response to ongoing drought conditions and grasshopper damage impacting crop yields.
This week’s flooding left some New Hampshire farms looking more like lakes than agricultural land. “One of my fields was under eight feet of water,” said John Janiszyn, owner of Pete’s Stand in Walpole. “My son and my wife went canoeing on one of our fields.”
Farms across western Massachusetts are reporting near-total loss of their crops afterthis week's floodsin the region, and a little more rain is on the way.The Northeast saw heavyrainfalls that causedsignificant damage in Vermont, upstate New York, and western Massachusetts.
Last year the largest compensations were for the kiwi.Some greenhouses blew up last winter because of what the farmer Aquilino Fernández defines as a hurricane.Thanks to his insurance policy, he was able to collect compensation for both the harvest and material damage.
Due to the rains recorded in May and June, close to 90% of the Spring garlic harvest in the Spanish region of Castile-La Mancha won't be easy to sell in the fresh market, according to Antonio Escudero, head for garlic at the regional delegation of ASAJA.
Not only did the explosion at the Kahovka Hydroelectric Power Station have terrible consequences for Ukrainians, primarily reflected in the prices of products, but also the weather conditions have led to a significantly lower yield of vegetables and fruits.
The initial assessment of drought-related damages in dryland arable crops, including winter cereals, legumes, and rapeseed, has reached€300 million, as estimated by Agroseguro (Spanish Association of Insurance Entities of Combined Agricultural Insurance).
Rainfall across the nation may be as much as 10 per cent below average this monsoon season, and the onset of the El Nino weather pattern could lower precipitation even further over the next two years, according to government officials.
Thursday's afternoon hailstorm hit various points of Lower Aragon. It left impressive images of streets and people protecting themselves from its force in the capital and generated losses in the harvest of one of the most emblematic fruits of the region, the Melocotón de Calanda PDO's peach.
Wednesday’s flooding is affecting farms along the Connecticut River. A Glastonbury farm says this has resulted in a major loss of crops.“This going to be flooded for a while. It’s going to take a week for it to try out," said Kevin Bassette.
The UK potato sector has been going through a better spell this year, but it did take a long time for the potato shortage to feed back to growers as there was still crop from the previous year on the market and the prices didn’t increase until around mid-May.
Growers, farmers, processors and the public are asked to remain vigilant after the Animal and Plant Health Agency confirmed findings of Colorado potato beetle larvae in Kent.Beetle larvae were identified in a field in Kent on Tuesday 11 July confirmed by Defra and the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) as Colorado potato beetle (Leptinotarsa decemlineata).
Until the morning of July 10, Agroseguro had received claims for 30,059 insured hectares because of the damages caused by the hail and rain storms last Thursday and Friday in the Ebro Valley.
"The first deliveries of the new domestic harvest of organic onions took place at the end of week 27. At the moment, the demand is mainly covered by goods from the Netherlands", Josephine Hardt informs us.
Today, the federal and provincial governments announced Saskatchewan Crop Insurance Corporation (SCIC) is implementing extraordinary measures to offer support to Saskatchewan livestock producers facing challenges resulting from dry conditions this year, allowing additional acres of low yielding cereal and pulse crops to be diverted to feed.
The Vermont Agency of Agriculture has released a resource page for farmers beginning to assess the damage from this week's floods.It provides instructions for what farmers can do about crop losses, if they have to dump milk because trucks can't get to their road, and where they can go for emergency funds.