Drought
Production of hay, including alfalfa, in the top-18 hay-producing states has been declining rapidly, according to USDA’s Annual Crop Production Summary.
Both the hard red winter wheat crop and shipping on the Mississippi River have become the most recent focus of the drought.
Early next week, cooler weather will spread from the Midwest into the Northeast.
Take a virtual crop tour across farm country, without leaving your chair.
Rice farmer Boontham Chei-pa switches on a water pump in the evenings to irrigate his parched field from a canal in Thailand’s central province of Suphanburi.
Weather phenomenon closely watched by commodities traders.
With harvest time across California, many of the state’s once-robust crops — from the grapes that make world-famous wines to popular almonds — are anticipated to be smaller than usual this year due to the state’s historic drought.
AgDay’s Tyne Morgan takes us to the Show-Me State where the heat has pushed this year’s crop to be ready a month early.
Manhattan, Ill., farmer Dave Kestel says while yields are still impressive, they would have been extraordinary if they would have just caught one of those summer rains.
This is quite a change from 2012 when Mother Nature didn’t hand Michigan apple producers any favors.