A new study put out by Rutgers Cooperative Extension and the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station estimates the financial costs of deer damage in 2019 at nearly $1.3 million among a sample group of 27 New Jersey farmers.
When he saw a roiling thunder bank of black clouds blowing into Salem, South Dakota, last month, farmer Kurt Stiefvater thought it would take 20 minutes to reach his property. It took five. “I couldn’t believe how fast it was moving,” he says of the over 100-mile-per-hour gusts.
"The potato market is in transition at this time of year," says Jurgen Duthoo of Warnez in Belgium. "A few traders are still working with local products, but others are opting for early potatoes from southern Europe, especially Spain."
According to Terence Hochstein, executive director of Potato Growers of Alberta there is not much positive news from his own jurisdictions, and relayed similarly unfortunate news from his other provincial counterparts.
Farms across France were hit by heavy hail and fierce storms over the weekend, the National Farmers' Union Federation (FNSEA) said on Monday, while their counterparts in Italy warned of the impact of drought on crop yields.
In the last 16 years, Mozambique has recorded ten tropical weather systems, among them cyclones and storms. In the last two seasons, the TCG was the most devastating in terms of deaths, affected population, cropland area, and damaged infrastructure.
Using a combination of drones and machine learning techniques, researchers from The Ohio State University have recently developed a novel method for determining crop health and used it to create a new tool that may aid future farmers.
Dhaval Kotadiya is a 24-year-old LLB first semester student residing at Talala Taluk in Gir Somnath district of Gujarat’s Kathiawar area. He lost his father when he was studying and he had to take care of the 400 Kesar mango plants, for which the district is famous for, in three hectares of his family property.
As drought deprives western and central Kansas of rain, farmers are bracing for a drop in production that threatens to barely cover input costs. Crop experts project yield to drop by more than 100 million bushels from last year's harvest, worth more than $1 billion at current commodity prices.
At heart, I know that Kumirmari is reducing in size, eroding away part by part. I don’t know what will happen to the Sundarbans in the next 10-20 years,” says Soma Mondal, 30, a resident of the world’s largest delta.
Agricultural operations in South Dakota have been significantly impacted by a severe weather event that included straight-line winds, causing wide-spread, extensive destruction across the state.
Ali Muhammad was looking forward to a bumper crop this year but a hailstorm of few minute shattered all his dreams rather in a jiffy. "The hailstones completely devastated my small apple farm", says Muhammad.
Producers in the west are nearly wrapped up with seeding while many in the east are still behind due to rain delays and extremely wet fields. Currently, 76 per cent of the crop acres in the province have been seeded, up from 52 per cent last week but still well behind the five-year average (2017-21) of 93 per cent.
Joram Kazingo is a cassava farmer from Mvugwe village in Kigoma, Northwest Tanzania. Mvugwe is one of the 62 villages in Kasulu District with a population of about 15,745 people.
Agricultural insurance as administered by state-owned Philippine Crop Insurance Corp. (PCIC) is severely deficient, the Department of Finance (DoF) said over the weekend, citing the results of a World Bank study that also recommended a system overhaul.
California blueberries are harvested from more than 5,000 acres in the state.Owing to spring frost and hail, some California growers are picking a smaller crop for blueberries this year.