A farm in Jones, Oklahoma is trying its best to recover after a possible chemical attack wiped out a large number of their crops."In total, we're looking at over $100,000," said Farmer Michael Ruzycki.
Haskap berry harvest will begin in Quebec next week and growers are thankful for the rain received this week. “We are missing a lot of rain. Today is the first day we’re having a good amount of rain since April.
A 5-inch-diameter hailstone from the eastern Mississippi storm cell made media headlines, but reports of wind and hail damage to crops in the Mississippi Delta began rolling in as early as the previous weekend.
Hot weather this month is expected to reduce the yield potential of French cereal crops but this summer’s harvest should still bring good yields, crop institute Arvalis said on Wednesday.
A succession of cold fronts has caused severe flooding in the Western Cape and rain is expected until next week Wednesday, after which citrus growers will wait a further two or three days for orchards to dry out before harvesting can resume.
New Hampshire and other northeastern states are asking the federal government for help after deep freezes in February and May contributed to significant crop loss.
In the past few years, Telangana has seen successive seasons of unusual rainfall, resulting in significant crop damage. The most recent were the erratic summer rains and hailstorms that ravaged lakhs of acres of crops between March and May.
The Egyptian sky turned orange as a heavy sandstorm hit the country in early June. Strong winds laden with dust and sand caused serious disruption to traffic in the country, prompting the government to close the Suez Canal and two ports and to advise Egyptians to stay at home and avoid walking close to billboards.
After a hard freeze early in the growing season - some peach farms are at a total crop loss. However, some farms across the Upstate are blossoming right along.Andy Rollins with Clemson Extension says there’s many reasons why some farms could withstand the freeze, while others could not.
The loss of the Kahovka reservoir has become not only the largest man-made disaster for Ukrainians but also a tragedy on a national scale. The agricultural industry in the south of the country has practically been destroyed.
Vineyards and apple orchards across the Northeast are still gauging damage from a late-season frost in May that wiped out a third to most of the crop for some growers who say it’s the worst frost damage they’ve experienced.
Successfully navigating those trials, growers were expecting a very good season in 2022/23 when New Zealand’s apple industry suffered catastrophic damage from Cyclone Gabrielle in February 2023, destroying years of investment to expand production.
Hundreds of thousands of locusts have descended on crops in northern Afghanistan under the helpless gaze of farmers and their families already stalked by food shortages.In the village of Kandali in Balkh, one of eight affected provinces in the country’s breadbasket, a swarm of grey insects has amassed on a wheat field.
Vineyards and apple orchards across the Northeast are still gauging damage from a late-season frost in May that wiped out a third to most of the crop for some growers who say it’s the worst frost damage they have ever seen.
The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reported that the El Niño phenomenon has begun.This meteorological phenomenon with consequences for the entire planet is characterized by the warming of the surface of the equatorial eastern Pacific Ocean and occurs every 2 to 7 years on average.
Rainfall in the last three weeks in southern Spain has interrupted and affected part of the early spring garlic harvest. It is still early to make any global assessments, but the supply is expected to be reduced due to the losses caused by excess moisture.