A cold air mass from the Atlantic is bringing changes to the weather and putting an end to the latest heat wave, and to temperatures that have inevitably resulted in significant stress for fruit crops, including the later peach varieties from the Spanish region of Aragon.
The latest bout of heavy rain in Chile has areas that received 400 mm of rain causing an estimated $400 million in damages. While this is an initial estimate, according to producers and Fedefruta, Chile’s fruit representative organisation, there are still fields which cannot be reached, with damages expected to amount to much more.
California’s table grape harvest was significantly harmed byTropical StormHilary, whichbrought torrential weather to California on Aug. 20. The storm crossedBaja California, and also dropped rain in Sonora, en route to California.
Canadian farmers will harvest less wheat than expected after dry conditions in parts of the Prairie provinces shrunk yields, a government report showed on Tuesday.Drought is expected to send global wheat stockpiles for major exporters to the lowest levels in more than a decade, a Reuters analysis has shown.
Last week featured some of the hottest temperatures of the year across the U.S. Corn Belt, increasing stress on corn and soybean crops as the heat was accompanied by a second week of largely dry weather.
The heat in Southern Europe is affecting the grape market, including Italian grapes. "There are many burnt grapes and inferior qualities on the market. The supply of good quality grapes is 30-40% down from last year.
The Turkish fruits have had a hard time dealing with the weather conditions. Sara Aslihan Metin, responsible for sales of Turkish fresh produce exporter Göknur, states the temperature in Turkey reached over 50 degrees Celsius.
A very hot and dry week in Kansas has wreaked havoc on Jon Kerschen’s soybeans."Where we're at now you can tell, I mean, the leaves are brown. We're down to the plants dying and none of the pods have much of a bean in them at all,“ Kerschen.
As soon as the grape season started in Morocco, back in May, growers had anticipated a low season due to water stress and successive heat waves. Today, at the end of the campaign, they are reporting greater-than-expected damage yet a degree of commercial success.
In response to the deep freeze that devastated vineyards and orchards in late May, federal agriculture disaster designations weregranted earlier this monthto 31 affected counties throughout New York.
Pests and diseases are exacerbating crop shortages that have sent prices for goods like cocoa, olive oil and orange juice soaring. That’s set to become even more prevalent as extreme weather events multiply.
Aman farming has fallen short by a fourth of the government target by now, more than two weeks after the best time for planting the crop, which is usually sowed in July.The government had a target of growing aman, the second most important rice crop after boro, on 5.66 million hectares.
Caught between a patchy monsoon, farmers in distress and the Centre's stringent norms on declaring drought, the state government has decided to conduct a ground verification survey in 130 talks that are facing drought-like conditions to assess crop damage.
Chile’s fruit industry was yet again hit by very high rainfall of between 50 mm to 150 mm, that has caused a fresh round of flooding and a delay in mandarin and lemon harvesting.
Hundreds of farmers have lost the paddy crop that they had replanted in August. Their crop was first damaged during the floods in July.“While farmers have not been informed about the compensation for the crop that they had lost in July, there is no action visible for assessing the crop loss second time now.
University of Alberta researchers have found new clubroot strains capable of infecting canola plants bred to resist the disease.Now, a variety of management strategies are needed to counter evolving threats to Prairie crops.