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Due to the drought, the "red code" has been extended until August 5 due to the low water content of the rivers, reports the hydrological center of the State Hydrometeorological Service of ...

More than a dozen small rivers in Moldova dried up due to intense heat and lack of precipitation, the Hydrometeorological Service of Moldova said on July 25, according to Arguments and Facts ...

The day potato farmers in San Luis Valley had been waiting on for more than 25 years finally came as Mexico’s decades long limitation on Colorado-grown potatoes came to an end earlier this month, reports ...

Many practitioners consider using irrigation to protect their crops from drought. Getting started with irrigation is not worth it for every farm. In dry summers, sprinkling can save yields. However, getting started is not for every ...

This is now also shown by the drought monitor from the Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research (UFZ)

Heat and dryness have been the story of the summer this year in southern Idaho. With record heat, crops — including Idaho’s most famous crop — have seen effects in numerous ways, ...

The hot, dry, and smoky growing season has left some Idaho potato farmers bracing for a poor crop. Randy Hardy of Oakley told the Idaho State Journal that his harvest will likely ...

The toll that hot dry weather took on the Red River Valley 2021 potato crop won’t be visible until harvest begins in a few weeks, but it’s already clear it has affected ...

This year’s drought is on its way to becoming the worst the Prairies have ever recorded and the worst ever in Canada, according to John Pomeroy, Canada research chair in water resources and ...

High heat in the early summer can lead to reduced yield and deformed potatoes on farmers, said Washington State Potato Commission Executive Director Chris Voigt in a Herald telephone interview. A potato ...

A study determined that the types of Creole potato have high resistance to water stress in dry seasons.

We've been irrigation the potatoes intensively for several weeks now, with increasingly tight shifts

After conducting experiments with treatments to improve the behavior of a Creole potato crop under conditions of water deficit

As a historic drought ravages farms and ranches throughout the Klamath Basin on the California-Oregon border there are visible signs of the calamity everywhere. Fields lie fallow. There are dust storms in ...

demonstrate the tolerance of some varieties after having subjected them to a water deficit

Europatat is part of an international consortium involved in the ADAPT (“  Accelerated Development of Multiple Stress Tolerant Potato Varieties  ”) research project, which aims to develop new strategies to make potatoes adapt to ...

Contract cut had a major impact on their operation but added that this year’s drought hurt them even more

a long-term HZPC research project into the drought tolerance of different varieties – finds itself once more under the spotlight.

Even if irrigation appears to be necessary for plant cultivation, it is only economical if prices are high. Economic success in arable farming depends directly on rainfall. Two years of drought in a ...

Under the scorching sun of the Andes, Nazario Quispe plunges the plow into his potato field. But he is not sure he will be able to harvest them in 2021 after a pandemic ...

The severity – and timing – of recent autumn downpours has illustrated the impact of a changing climate on farms and underlined the importance of long-term investment in land drainage, said industry ...

Most P.E.I. potato farmers have harvested all their spuds, and are not surprised to report the 2020 crop is down.  "We all know we had a hot, dry summer — it was ...

On Monday in Hanover, the Lower Saxony Chamber of Agriculture took stock of this year's harvest. Because 2020 was the third dry year in a row, crop yields were very different regionally, ...

The dry, warmer-than-normal growing season this year presents significant challenges for managing soil and crop residue this fall. Excessively dry soil conditions this season make field preparation and tillage this fall challenging, ...

HALIFAX -- With the harvest season underway, the impact of summer's drought-like conditions is being unearthed in New Brunswick. Due to a lack of rainfall during the growing season, potato farmers say ...