Fremont County has lost its spot as Wyoming’s No. 1 alfalfa-producing county, growing only two-thirds of the hay in 2012 than it did in 2011. The Riverton Ranger reported local farmers produced 157,000 tons of the crop, topped only by …
An emerging El Nino weather pattern is likely to have only a modest impact on crops and mining in Australia and could benefit sugar cane growers in Queensland, a senior forecaster said. Drier conditions have already settled in over much …
A major heat wave and drought has sent world grain prices sky rocketing for a second of three summers suggesting it is time to address supply through re-purposed climate research. Tackling high food prices among the leading G20 nations has …
A fierce spring storm that shredded Central California orchards last month caused more than $20 million damage in Kings County. Other San Joaquin Valley counties are still tallying the damage to crops when quarter-sized hail pummeled the area on April …
Catastrophe risk modeling firm AIR Worldwide announced that it has released the industry’s first Multiple Peril Crop Insurance (MPCI) Model for China. AIR said the “new model provides a fully probabilistic approach for determining the likelihood of losses to the …
Rice farmers have nearly a month to file for part of a $750 million settlement to claims that they lost money because Bayer CropScience mistakenly sold genetically modified seed in the United States. The original deadline was Oct. 10, but …
Agriculture and Forestry Commissioner Mike Strain D.V.M., said the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has guaranteed that Morganza Spillway farmers whose crops have been damaged by flooding caused by the Mississippi River will be eligible for crop insurance payments …
