Tag: crops
Biosecurity in fields and crops flows into food security
Breadcrumb Trail Links News Local News CFIA has a National Biosecurity Standard that recently added grains, oilseeds and potatoes, in addition to livestock Published May 27, 2024 • 5 minute…
25 fallow deer may be shot in Enhörna – allegedly destroyed crops worth a quarter of a million
The County Administrative Board in Stockholm gives thumbs up for protective hunting of fallow deer in Enhörna. This after farmers stated that the animals caused great damage to their crops.…
Greece, suffering from drought and floods, is trying to repair the damage caused by the weather – some crops may be irreversibly ruined
The storm damage in the fall will cost the Greek economy up to five billion euros. Wildfires raged on the Greek islands in midsummer, autumn storm Daniel brought another kind…
Brand new plant lab at UU should provide ‘super strong crops’
Robots, lasers, a conveyor belt and, above all, lots of plants. A new plant laboratory was opened at Utrecht University this afternoon. There, research is done into how plants adapt…
The farmer in Valla after all the rain: “One of the most expensive crops we have grown”
According to Johan Lagerholm, the month of August usually offers fine weather and the wheat harvest in Sörmland is in full swing. But this year it looks different. The heavy…
Crops and drought: will the dark scenario repeat itself this summer?
“The world has come to know its hottest start to june on recordafter a month of May very close – barely 0.1°C – to the past temperature record”, recently reported…
In Argentina, drought continues to undermine crops
For the third year in a row, Argentina is in the grip of an interminable drought that is wreaking havoc on cereal and soybean fields. A major problem for an…
Chile’s specificity is its pine and eucalyptus crops
At least 24 dead, 2,180 injured and nearly 300,000 hectares burned. This is the still provisional assessment of the fires that continue to ravage central-southern Chile. This area alone already…
Adapting crops to cope with climate change: “Absolutely crucial”
Plants that we grow with today both in Sweden and in other countries in Europe cannot handle high temperatures for a long time. In France alone, heat and drought have…
More drinking water, dry crops: the government faced with a historic drought
No more tap water in a hundred municipalities in France, crops destroyed for lack of watering, biodiversity in danger: challenged on all fronts of this historic drought, the government no…