A drought of biblical proportions in Argentina is showing no signs of letup, with soybean plants getting baked to a crisp on the Pampas farm belt.The Buenos Aires Grain Exchange has slashed its forecast for the crop by another 14 percentto 25 million metric tons, which would be the smallest harvest since it began keeping records in 2001.
Mississippi's blueberry supply could be scarce this season after a Sunday night, Monday morning freeze."Anytime you have a crop failure or crop loss it's going to affect it," said Tim Cooper, owner of Cooper Farms in Morton.
A recent survey of 400 farmers by AgReliant and AgriGold shows tar spot is the No. 1 corn disease of concern heading into the 2023 growing season. And for good reason.“Tar spot can be very damaging,” Whitney Monin, national agronomy manager for AgriGold, said at Commodity Classic.
As concerns of heatwave ebbed across key wheat-growing states in India, wheat harvest in the country is now facing worries from showers and hailstorms. Traders are concerned that the showers and hailstorms may lead to yield and quality loss in the crop.
Kenya’s horticulture sector is facing low earnings this year from avocado exports as 40 percent of the fruits have been affected by the ongoing drought even as the export market opens next week.
Many of Manisa's famous cherry trees remain barren and fruitless in the Aegean region due to inadequate precipitation. The cherry trees are also being hit hard by global warming.
A broken levee is having a huge impact on California's farming communities in the Watsonville and Salinas areas. This region is estimated to grow about one-third of California's strawberries.
Banana availability in South Africa has tightened as a result of the flooding in the southern parts of Mozambique last month.Up to 75% of the bananas sold at Gauteng’s municipal markets come from Mozambique and Eswatini.
The atmospheric river rains that have hit California this week are, for the moment, halting the harvest of our kumquats. “Kumquats cannot be picked when it’s raining because they have tiny pores which can absorb the surface dust into the skin of the fruit, causing the fruit to rot in a few days,” says Matt Pfefferof Fresh Fruit Sales Nevada.
Spain is the world's second-largest producer of artichokes, behind only Italy, and Murcia leads its production by concentrating approximately 40% of the total national harvest, according to the latest MAPA data.
Heavy rains in Peru are challenging the wrap-up of the Peruvian ginger season. “There is little ginger underground and the ginger that remains is an old crop,” says Gino Neira, co-founder of Inkawald, a family-owned company based in Peru.
Slovakia has joined the already extensive list of countries that have officially detected the tomato virus (ToBRFV) in their territory.The country's ONPF recently informed the EPPO Secretariat about this first finding of ToBRFV in a 2.5-hectare greenhouse that produced tomato fruits (Solanum lycopersicum) in the municipality of Levice.
Climate extremes are reducing crop yields with hotter, drier growing seasons posing challenges to farmers worldwide according to arelease.Growing seasons have been getting hotter and drier between the years 1980 to 2009 according to a newstudyfrom an international team led by researchers at Aalto University.
The effects of climate change are projected to reduce farming production by 50 per cent in the next 30 years, according to a report by European Environmental Agency (EEA).The report focused on important climate change problems facing agriculture in the European Union (EU) and its position for the years ahead.
With sudden change in atmosphere, Sangareddy and Vikarabad districts witnessed heavy rain with hailstorm on Thursday afternoon.According to sources, there was a hailstorm for about half-an-hour in Kohir mandal and parts of Zaheerabad.
Climate change is altering precipitation patterns across the globe. In the upper Midwestern part of the United States, abnormal precipitation events are projected to increase. In recent years, the Midwest has experienced a 37% increase in ‘very heavy precipitation’ events (defined as the heaviest 1% of all daily events) according to Karl et al., 2009.