03.09.2010 USA - Weather extremes hamper apple crop The apple harvesting season often lasts about three months but can be ruined in 30 minutes. Severe weather conditions — especially a damaging hail storm that swept through the area in July —have marred the 2010 season for one local grower, while another, whose orchard wasn’t affected by hail, said rain has been the problem.
03.09.2010 UK - Farmers Urged to Check Insurance After Recent Farm Fires A number of Northumberland farmers have seen their livelihood go up in smoke as they are left to count the cost of what can only be described as mindless acts of vandalism. Andew Jamieson of rural specialists George F. White offers some advice on the steps farmers should take in regard to making sure they have all the information required to process any insurance claims.
03.09.2010 Pakistan - After the floods: Possible effects on Pakistan’s farmland The massive floods that began to hit Pakistan in late July have afflicted the country extremely. Seventy-nine of the country’s 124 districts have been affected. The disaster has not only led to losses in terms of human casualties and large scale displacement but has also damaged the agricultural country’s major crops over an estimated area of more than 1.38 million acres which constitutes 30 per cent of Pakistan’s agricultural land.
03.09.2010 India - Scarce rains may take toll on jute crop This year, in spite of the fact that, jute sowing was above expectation, but then there has been a fall in production on account of scanty rains in a number of major jute cultivating regions of West Bengal. Jute production thus seems to have gone down to a certain extent. The State Government which recently declared 11 of its total 18 districts to be drought-hit, has sanctioned Rs. 500 million to deal with the situation that has come up account of scanty rains to an extent of 30 percent.
02.09.2010 Canada - Farmers facing losses on drenched crops Producers in Southern Manitoba are hoping to be spared any more precipitation after a deluge of rain pounded properties this week. It means more lost crops for an industry that seems to always be fighting the clock, and Mother Nature. Though they've harvested a lot already, they will face a loss on whatever’s still out there, including soy beans that were looking good before the storm.
02.09.2010 Global wheat output set to fall 5%: FAO Global wheat output is forecast to fall to 646 million tonnes this year, down 5% from 2009, the United Nations’ food agency said on Tuesday, cutting its earlier projection due to lower crops in drought-hit Russia. Russia’s wheat output is expected to fall to 43 million tonnes in 2010, down from an earlier estimate of 48 million tonnes and offsetting higher crops expected in the United States and China.
02.09.2010 Pakistan - Seed losses threaten Pakistan's 2011 wheat harvest Pakistan's floods have destroyed more than 500,000 tonnes of seed wheat, besides ruining some land, on the eve of the planting season, extending the country's agricultural concerns into next year's crop. Help was needed even for farmers whose own stores had escaped inundation, with the dearth of alternative foods prompting them to turn to seed wheat for uses such as making chapattis, a staple for rural populations.
02.09.2010 Sugar Surplus to Narrow as Weather `Plays Havoc' With Crops The sugar market may have a smaller surplus than earlier forecast because of crop damage in nations including Russia and Pakistan, and dry weather in Brazil, the top producer, according to Kingsman SA. Global production may exceed demand by 3.52 million metric tons in the year ending March, compared with 5.17 million tons predicted in June.
02.09.2010 Russia - Russian heat wave and fires hit economy The record-breaking heat wave in Russia has hurt the economy and the effects have spilled over to the rest of the world, with food prices soaring. In 2009 Russia was the world's third largest exporter of grain but around a quarter of the country's farm land damaged by fires in the first half of August, according to some estimates, expectations for this year's crop have plummeted to about 60m tonnes, down from last year's 97m tonnes.
02.09.2010 Weather conditions tie fires in Russia to floods in Pakistan Heat waves in Russia and floods in Pakistan - the number of recent extreme weather situations worldwide has experts puzzled. A shift in jet streams, the winds that help air masses circulate could be playing a role. Weather conditions around the world have taken on a extreme nature recently as fires burn through Russia and floods in Pakistan have millions fighting for their lives.
07.06.2010 Adjusting Hail and Storm Damage on Maize seminar - September 8-10, 2010, Switzerland International Association of Agricultural Production Insurers offers a seminar on hail and storm damage on corn. The seminar is jointly organized by the association and Swiss Hail. the seminar will be conducted on September 8-10, 2010 in Egerkingen. Enrolment - by August 1, 2010. 12.04.2010 Remote Sensing Index-Based Crop Insurance Working Group meeting - August 10-11, 2010, USA The 2nd International Working Group On Remote Sensing Index-Based Crop Insurance will take place on August 10-11, 2010 in San Francisco, CA at the Fairmont Hotel. Practical technical issues related to implementing satellite derived index based crop insurance will be discussed.
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