The OIE and risk management instruments for epidemic livestock diseases World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) is an intergovernmental organisation. It was founded in 1924. Today 170 countries are the members of OIE. The OIE provides technical support to Member Countries requesting assistance with animal disease control and eradication operations, including diseases transmissible to humans. The OIE notably offers expertise to the poorest countries to help them control animal diseases that cause livestock losses, present a risk to public health and threaten other Member Countries.
FAO - Agriculture and Food Risk Management Disaster risk management (DRM) is a systematic process of using administrative directives, organizations, and operational skills and capacities to implement strategies, policies in order to lessen the adverse impacts of hazards and the possibility of disaster. FAO maintains the concept and practice of reducing disaster risks through systematic efforts to analyse and manage the causal factors of disasters, including through reduced exposure to hazards, lessened vulnerability of people and property, wise management of land and the environment, and improved preparedness for adverse events. Presentation was done at the International conference agricultural insurance and risk management in Madrid, Spain in March 2010
USA - The Agricultural Credit Situation Serious problems that developed in the agricultural credit situation in 2009 could escalate in 2010–2011. The earliest problems have occurred for lenders with loan concentrations in beef, dairy, hogs and poultry. Producers in all the protein sectors have suffered significant losses for over a year, resulting in a large increase in non-performing loans. Although there were few foreclosures in 2009, without a significant turnaround in income, many dairy and hog loans are in a near crisis situation. Many producers have lost enough equity that their lenders will be forced to discontinue financing.
Properly identify ear rot diseases With several types of ear rot diseases appearing on Ohio’s corn crop, properly identifying them is important for producers to make decisions about feeding grain to livestock. Current weather conditions are favorable for ear rot development: wet weather late in the season, frost occurring before maturity, corn standing in the field for an extended period and delayed maturity. Other indicators of potential ear rot problems include bird and insect damage, hybrid susceptibility and ears drying down in an upright position.
Sprinkler Irrigation Systems, Which to Choose Sprinkler irrigation systems are rainfall-like methods of distributing water throughout soil. Water is distributed through a network of pipes by pumping, which—through spray heads—sprays it into the air, breaks it up into tiny drops falling to the soil. It is one of four basic irrigation methods; the other three are subsurface, surface or gravity and trickle irrigations. Of those four, sprinkler irrigation systems are the most commonly used throughout the globe.
Hail Injury on Corn Hail decreases yields by reducing stands as well as destroying leaves. The severity depends on the crop’s growth stage. Corn has an advantage over soybean early in the season when storms roll through since corn’s growing point remains below ground until about the sixth-leaf stage. Young plants like this are not killed if only leaf or stem tissue is lost.
Small Grain Diseases: Management of Those More Common and Severe in Dry Years Small grain diseases that are more severe under dry soil conditions in North Dakota include wheat streak mosaic virus and common root rot. These two diseases add stress to the small grain plant which is already under stress from lack of moisture and too much heat. Wheat streak mosaic is a virus disease primarily attacking wheat crops, and is transmitted by wheat curl mites. Common root rot is caused by a fungus ordinarily found in North Dakota soils, a fungus that may attack roots and crowns of wheat and barley. Another fungal root disease, Fusarium crown rot, is not as frequently observed as common root rot, but under dry conditions, it also may cause damage on wheat, barley and oats.
Grasshopper Management Under Drought Conditions Cultivation of the soil at the proper time can be one of the most effective cultural practices available to farmers for the reduction of grasshopper populations. Tillage reduces grasshoppers by eliminating the green plants on which grasshoppers feed. Fields that are tilled in late summer or early fall will not attract grasshoppers for egg-laying activity. Grasshoppers seldom lay eggs in tilled fields even when a heavy covering of plant residue remains.
Drought and Heat Stress Effects on Corn Yield Potential The combination of high temperatures and inadequate moisture has created severe stress in many corn fields. As dry weather continues, more corn fields are showing signs of moisture stress with leaf rolling evident during midday hours. In many stressed fields, soil moisture is available but it appears beyond reach of most corn roots.
Radar tech takes aim at fruit frost Adapting technology originally developed to detect and identify aircraft, the tech company Raytheon has developed a device that delivers radar waves to stop crops from freezing. To test the Tempwave's effectiveness at warming crops, Raytheon, working with a large citrus grower, Paramount Citrus, recently tested the Tempwave system on a quarter acre plot of naval oranges near Visalia, Calif.
During the course of several nights the temperature in the orange grove dropped to 28 degrees Fahrenheit. Raytheon's team placed one Tempwave antenna, about 30 feet tall and bulb-shaped, on each corner of the four acre plot and let them run through the night. Without any system to warm the fruit, the oranges would have frozen and become unsellable. The naval oranges made it thought the night unscathed.
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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