Some farmers in the Thunder Bay area say this year's extra long stretch of winter weather has delayed some planting, cost them money and created several hassles —but they're used to the challenges of farming in northwestern Ontario and are more annoyed or impatient than panicked.
The floods that devastated parts of southeast Australia last month revealed, yet again, this nation’s growing insurance problem. Assessment of the damage was agonisingly slow, and rising premiums meant many victims were completely uninsured.
On either side of a county road in the Winter Wheat Belt, wheat fields – normally lush, green and waving with the breeze – are short, pale and turning blue, a surefire sign of stress.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) had in August warned that the world is headed towards dangerous consequences of climate change that will affect life and livelihoods on a global scale.
Pseudococcus longispinus, known as long-tailed cochineal, is not an unknown species in the Valencian Community. In fact, the Institut Valencià d'Investigacions Agràries (IVIA) has warned in a recent study that this cotonet is the main species of Pseudococcidae that affects the cultivation of kaki.
Snow and cold temperatures have pushed back the start of the Oregon asparagus season. “There’s just more wintery weather than we normally see at this time of year.
A total of 1,365 padi farmers in Kelantan suffered losses amounting to RM26.19 million from the damage that floods caused to their rice crop in February.
The National Rice Policy Committee on Wednesday approved providing 1.92 billion baht to support the rice insurance scheme for the main crop of the 2022 season.
Many farmers in the southern Plains and the West worry they can't produce goodcrops this year because of an abnormally dry winter and little prospect for moisture in coming weeks.
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Farmers in the Zambezi region's Balyerwa conservancy, which is bordered by Mudumu and Nkasa Rupara National Parks, fear for their lives because of the elephants that visit their homestead every night to feed on their crop fields.
A cool spring and wet conditions have contributed to sluggish progress in seeding the 2022 US corn and spring wheat crops. Both crops were behind the average planting pace in the US Department of Agriculture’s latest Crop Progress report released April 25.
The northern part of Spain is an important growing area for stonefruits, cherries, apricots, nectarines, peaches, paraguayos, platerinas and plums. From the Ebro river valley at the coast, land in to Calatayud, Zaragoza then a bit up, Huesca, more east, Fraga, Lleida and then Taragona area again.
The last winter was the second-driest winter of the last 40 years in Spain. According to data from the State Meteorological Agency, it only rained 45% of the average rainfall there is in winter.
The assessment of the damage caused by the frost associated with the Cyril storm on the first weekend of April is progressing rapidly, confirming the worst initial forecasts.
Damage to the agriculture sector of Tropical Depression Agaton continues to climb, hitting P3.27 billion , according to latest data from the Department of Agriculture’s (DA) Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Operations Center.
Not even two months ago, the lack of rainfall in the Spanish Region of Murcia had led the regional government and irrigators to discuss the need for the immediate implementation of a drought decree, but now the water situation in the Region has taken an unexpected turn.