USA - Freeze damage, ‘iffy’ pollination threaten Yakima Valley orchards
For the growing and harvesting of cherries, timing is everything — and for the past two seasons, extreme weather has struck at the worst times for Yakima Valley cherry growers.
03.05.2022
03.05.2022
USA - Local farmers highlight crop issues related to climate change
Sustainable Tompkins hosted a documentary screening and panel discussion last week, focusing on how farmers in the immediate area are adapting to climate change.
03.05.2022
UK - Impact of combined threats to insects cited
The report from a new study says habitat loss from big agriculture and climate change are combining to threaten the world’s insects that are essential for growing food.
02.05.2022
Turkey - Quarantine being implemented in 26 provinces due to potato wart disease
CHP Niğde Deputy Ömer Fethi Gürer announced that potato cancer, which came to Turkey via foreign seeds, has invaded agricultural lands. A quarantine has been implemented in 26 provinces of the nation.
02.05.2022
India - Special team studies cashew crop losses
A special team appointed by the government of Andhra Pradesh visited the remote villages and tribal habitations to estimate the loss occurred to cashew yields due to the recent gales in Kanya district on Saturday.
02.05.2022
India - Kozhikode, Wayanad record Rs 2.8-corer crop loss
Damage to crops has been registered in various parts of Kozhikode and Wayanad districts due to summer rain that have been lashing since Saturday night. The Kozhikode district alone has registered an agricultural loss of Rs 2.8 crore as a result of the last four days’ rain.
02.05.2022
South Africa - Farmers lose millions in crop and infrastructure damage
Ven Moodley's family-owned sugarcane farm suffered R20 million in crop and infrastructural damages due to the floods. Moodley, 67, has been farming with his cousin Raymond Moodley since they were children.
02.05.2022
USA - Willamette Valley wine industry evaluates a ‘wicked night’ of frost
Frost can be beautiful and exhilarating. It can also be destructive when it arrives in a vineyard at the wrong time of year. After heavy frosts recently hit agricultural areas up and down the West Coast, the Willamette Valley wine industry waits to learn how much wine they will be making this fall.
02.05.2022
India - Crop losses to be large, wheat and vegetables hit the most
Heatwave conditions since the middle of March have caused significant damage to the standing wheat crop, especially in Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh, all major producers of the staple cereal.
02.05.2022
USA - Heavy rains destroy 80% of strawberry season's first crop
After a wet autumn and warm sunny days in the first three months of this year, the 2022 strawberry crop was exceptionally promising -- growing earlier and more rapidly than usual.
02.05.2022
India - Heat wave scorches wheat crop, snags export plans
An unusually early, record-shattering heat wave in India has reduced wheat yields, raising questions about how the country will balance its domestic needs with ambitions to increase exports and make up for shortfalls due to Russia's war in Ukraine.
29.04.2022
Spain - The first stages of the watermelon campaign marked by 40% drop in production
We are in the early stages of the spring campaign, which has so far been marked by a noteworthy decrease in the production of all horticultural crops. In the case of melons and watermelons, the impact has coincided with the key moment of the pollination, which marks the crop's subsequent setting and development.
29.04.2022
India - Rajasthan to train revenue officials for PM’s crop insurance scheme
After the presentation of a separate agriculture budget with a provision of ₹5,000 crore for Krishak Sathi Yojana this year, the Congress government in Rajasthan has shifted its attention to get full benefit of the Prime Minister’s Crop Insurance Scheme.
29.04.2022
Canada - Spring frost puts summer crops at risk
Many area farms saw temperatures drop to -5C overnight Wednesday into Thursday morning. Tom Heeman, field manager at Heeman’s, was surveying the strawberry fields in Thorndale, Ont. Thursday morning with mixed success.
29.04.2022
Canada - Assistance for livestock producers impacted by severe spring storms
The Provincial Disaster Assistance Program (PDAP) is available to support eligible livestock producers who have experienced significant financial losses due to recent extreme weather in Saskatchewan.
29.04.2022
Brazil - 10 football pitches of pristine rainforest lost per minute in 2021
Huge swathes of tropical rainforest were burned or hacked down for cattle and crops last year, led by destruction in Brazil, researchers said Thursday, warning that climate change itself is making it harder to reverse the losses.