Following the weekend’s Tropical Storm Hilary, growers and shippers were out early this week assessing the situation on crops and plantings.At Fillmore-Piru Citrus, it had planned on finishing its lemon harvest early this week--however, due to the weather, it now won’t be doing so until the end of the week.
The next bergamot orange campaign is at risk as fruits have been largely destroyed by the abnormal temperatures in July, characterized by muggy heat and temperatures reaching 50°C. All of this has led Regione Calabria to request the recognition of a natural disaster.
For the first time in more than two decades, Autumn Stoscheck, the owner ofEve’s Cideryin Van Etten, says this year’s crop of apples and pears is a total loss. Federal low-interest emergency loans are now available to help famers like Stoscheck who were impacted by a devastating spring freeze.
The risks to Spain's agricultural sectors are increasing due to climate change's effects. After a poor cereal harvest, the ravages of the ongoing drought are spreading to other crops, such as grapes and olives.
When to harvest is one of the most crucial decisions a winemaker can make. Too early, and the result is bitter. Too late, and it’s overly sweet. It’s a delicate balance—one that’s increasingly being upended by the climate crisis.
The Jordanian Medjool season continues quietly, in a context of lower productivity than last year and normal demand.Jordanian Medjool producer Rabea Hosami said: "The quality of Jordanian Medjool is very competitive worldwide.
All is not peachy in Maine’s peach orchards this year.A spell ofbitter cold weatherlast February, a day and a half of high winds and temperatures reaching 18 degrees below zero, resulted in total crop failure this summer.
While wildfires in British Columbia caused tens of thousands of people to evacuate, this weekend Southern California was drenched by its first tropical storm in decades. On the same day, an earthquake in Ventura County caused widespread shaking.
Each of the four GLOW region counties have been included in a federal disaster declaration for a May freeze event.Orleans County was designated as a primary natural disaster area, while Genesee, Livingston, and Wyoming counties were named contiguous disaster counties.
The U.S. Crop Watch corn and soybean fields last week endured one of their driest collective weeks of the last couple months, though the increasingly familiar theme of cooler temperatures prevented any sizable decline in yield expectations.
Dozens of New York counties have been designated as a primary disaster area by the U. S. Department of Agriculture after a May freeze impacted grape growers, federal officials said.
The Agriculture Insurance Board has paid farmers 2.362 billion rupees as compensation for crop damage in the four previous farming seasons, excluding the 2023 Yala season, Chairman of the Agriculture and Agrarian Insurance Board, Madduma Bandara Weerasekera, said.
It has been estimated that total crop losses caused by rodents each year could feed 200m people. However, it is important that all wildlife is protected while controlling rodents, Éanna Ní Lamhna told a Teagasc Signpost webinar on Friday 18 August. Ní Lamhna is communications officer with the Campaign for the Responsible Rodenticide Use (CRUU), which supports best practice and responsible rodent control in order to protect wildlife from rodenticide (rat bait) exposure.
Temperatures in many parts of China are still high. Weather forecasts warn that more than 20 provinces will experience prolonged 'sauna days' with temperatures well in the thirty degrees Celsius and humidity above 50%. The high temperature brings not only hot weather but also droughts and floods caused by deviations from normal temperature and precipitation.
Market garden operators got some insurance help this year with the promise that more comprehensive weather-loss protection is coming. Severe hailstorms that swept through central Alberta last summer destroying fruit and vegetable crops led to renewed calls for better insurance protection for market gardens along the lines of programs available for major crop producers.
Producers who suffered livestock losses because of recent natural disasters — including extreme heat — may be eligible for the livestock indemnity program, said Shanna Schulz, U.S. Department of Agriculture Farm Service Agency executive director in Madison County.