Spring's slow arrival hits crops, baseball.Science&Health.Science.Reuters. After the warmest winter ever recorded in the Northern Hemisphere and much talk of global warming, weather watchers say occasional snowstorms in the Midwest and Northeast, and unseasonable cold gripping much of the eastern two-thirds of the nation, is rare though not unprecedented. Spring's slow arrival hits crops, baseball.Science&Health.Science.Reuters. After the warmest winter ever recorded in the Northern...

SANA A, April, 15 Abdullah Al-Siani, director of plant quarantine in the Ministry of Agriculture expressed his surprise at the press release that the UN food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) issued on Thursday, in which it warned of the spread of new and virulent fungus that can attack many varieties of wheat in Yemen. UN confirms Wheat Killer in Yemen but Agriculture Ministry denies findings. SANA A, April, 15 Abdullah Al-Siani, director of plant quarantine in the Ministry of...

This reduction in high quality acreage may be an early indication of lower yields for wheat crops come harvest, though the true extent of any damage may not be known for several weeks. The Agriculture Department's weekly crop progress and condition report showed that winter wheat acreage considered good or excellent (an indication of average to above-average yields at harvest) declined from 71 percent to 64 percent. Wheat traders pushed prices higher throughout the week as a result of the...

April's hard freeze could bring federal money to Tennessee farmers which is a welcome thought for many growers who lost half their crops while others lost it all. However, not only have strawberries and winter wheat been damaged, corn, apple, pear and peach crops received damage as well. And the agriculture experts blame an unusual spring. We spoke with several farmers in Clarksville who weighed in on the topsy-turvy weather, and how much it affected them. We were in the teens two days in...

Just as with manufactured goods, exports of meat, produce, and processed foods from China have soared in recent years, prompting outcries from foreign farm sectors that are feeling pinched by low Chinese prices. Worried about losing access to foreign markets and stung by tainted food products scandals at home, China has in recent years tried to improve inspections, with limited success. Pesticides and chemical fertilizers are used in excess to boost yields, and harmful antibiotics are...