Sharing the cost of fighting animal disease The UK government is determined to press ahead with plans to make livestock producers share the cost of dealing with animal disease outbreaks. Producers will have to join an annual fee-based livestock registration scheme under proposals to establish a fighting fund to help pay for disease outbreaks.
New techniques keep disease on the back foot Changing disease threats to UK livestock, as highlighted by the arrival of bluetongue last year, mean research into animal health problems is needed now more than ever.
Weather risks, connected with agro production in Ukraine According to world specialists opinion 65-70% of losses, connected with unfavorable weather events, related to agricultural production. There is a possibility to aviod approximate half of these losses by having in hand exact metheorological factors and forecast. In addition, there are reasons to think, that dependence of agriculture from climate will remain, and, possibly increse. The main risks, which affect Ukrainian agriculture are: drought, heavy rains, hail, squalls, rainfals. In different years the yield losses in Ukraine from unfavorable weather events could achieve about 45-50%, and with combination of several unfavorable factors (2003- frosts, destruction from icy crust, drought) – 70% and more. Ukrainian Hydrometcenter has made calculations of crop losses due to unfavorable weather events for the previous several years, amoung which there are a good and catastrofy years. According to these calculations, the top scale of the average year expences level from unfavorable weather
Growers can benefit from new technology that warns of potential pest and disease threats Growers can benefit from new technology that warns of potential pest and disease threats. Weather stations and micro-climate monitoring have become major weapons in the battle against pests and diseases in crops. With the development of equipment linked to computers, accurate print-outs give growers precise models on which to base spraying programmes against pests and diseases in specific crops.
Growers can now create condition models for individual crops and locations that will indicate when they are at risk and the optimum times to spray.
Climate change in central Europe The number of weather-related natural catastrophes is on the increase in Europe. There is growing evidence that this trend is already due in part to climate change. The latest IPCC report confirms that the climate is changing.
Greening most serious citrus disease Citrus greening has been described as the world’s most serious citrus disease, and researchers are combining their efforts to help combat this threat to an important Florida industry. Citrus greening is a fatal disease that has never been successfully eradicated in other parts of the world. The disease, which slowly weakens and kills all types of citrus trees, causes fruit to become lopsided and taste bitter, making it unusable. Fruit does not develop the desired color, hence the greening name.
How to Make Soybean Replant Decisions Hail damage early in the growing season often looks worse than it really is and flood damage is often more detrimental than hail damage in the beginning of the growing season. As soon as a bean plant emerges, the growing point, located in the cotyledons, is above ground, he explains. This makes soybeans particularly susceptible to damage from hail, frost, insects such as bean leaf beetle, or anything that cuts the plant off below the cotyledons early in its life.
Use of the automatic weather stations for agricultural risks management by insurance companies The Insurance companies can co-operate with insurers and use meteostation’s data for the risks control. The station allows getting weather information in the real-time regime for exact time determination of the risk event beginning, descriptions of risk and duration of influence on the insured crops or animals. It is possible to tune the recorder for weather data fixing in a short intervals, for example 10-15 minutes. It allows minimizing the possibility of data manipulation, because the data flow will fix immediately the non-standard deflection of one or another parameters. For data control, the insurance companies can also use the data of the official state weather-stations. The state stations are usually situated at the distance of 40-60 km, separately; it is enough for the data control.
Berry growers face unique weed control challenges Weed control costs remain a substantial factor in all caneberry production. Weed control runs about $550 an acre in fall crop raspberries when they’re first planted and there are no metal stakes to contend with. In the spring crop, it’s about $200 an acre. However, the big cost in the spring crop is primocane control that can run up to $700 an acre. Blackberries present a big problem with perennial weeds and not many herbicides to control them. Weed control costs in blackberries can easily run $700 an acre.
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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