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Crop Pests Spreading North with Global Warming
2013-09-02 14:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Scientific American: Crop pests and diseases are moving towards the poles at about the same speed as warmer temperatures. The finding suggests that climate change is driving their relocation, and raises major concerns about food security. Climate change is expected to cause changes in the distributions of species around the world, with an overall shift away from the equator and towards the poles. Ecologists have already documented such a shift in many wild species, including some birds and insects. The changing climate...
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Study: Climate change driving spread of crop pests
2013-09-02 11:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BusinessGreen: The potential impact of climate change on food production has again been highlighted with the publication of a new study warning that rising temperatures are enabling the spread of crop pests into new latitudes. The paper from scientists at the University of Exeter and the University of Oxford, published in the journal Nature Climate Change this week, calculates that certain crop pests are heading towards the North and South poles at a rate of three kilometres a year, expanding the area where...
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Warming helps crop pests spread north, south: study
2013-09-01 08:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Crop-damaging pests are moving towards the poles at a rate of more than 25 km (16 miles) a decade, aided by global warming and human transport, posing a potential threat to world food security, a study showed on Sunday. The spread of beetles, moths, bacteria, worms, funghi and other pests in a warming world may be quicker than for many types of wild animals and plants, perhaps because people are accidentally moving them with harvests, it said. Scientists based in Britain studied more than 600 types...
Record-Breaking $17 Billion in Crop Loss Stresses Need for Federal Insurance Program Reform
2013-08-29 15:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Extreme weather means lost food as drought, flood and other weather-related farming hazards threaten and destroy crops. But what are we to do, since we cant fight weather? Or can we? As we enter this new frontier of the wild, wild weather, one of the most promising strategies for reducing both the material and financial losses is to build the resilience of our farms. Practices such as cover cropping, no-till and efficient irrigation have shown to reduce crop losses associated with extreme weather....
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Aug. 26 Crop Progress: Corn crop nearly one-quarter dented, soybean pod set catching up to average
2013-08-28 03:03:00| Corn & Soybean Digest
The overall corn crop made good progress in the last week, reaching 23% overall dented, but still 22 points behind the five-year average. Corn condition lost 2 points in the excellent rating, and gained 1 in poor and 1 in fair condition. Soybean pod set gained 12 points in the last week, reaching 84%. The five-year average is 90% for this time of year. The overall soybean crop lost 4 points in the good/excellent category, picking up three in the very poor/poor condition. read more
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