Heavy rains are jeopardizing the harvest in Germany, Joachim Rukwied, head of the German Farmers’ Association said on Monday. The grain harvest is predicted to come in at 42 million tons, slightly below last year’s result, Rukwied explained during a farm visit in Frankfurt. Warm and moist conditions were promoting rot in the potato crop, […]
Heavy rains are jeopardizing the harvest in Germany, Joachim Rukwied, head of the German Farmers’ Association said on Monday. The grain harvest is predicted to come in at 42 million tons, slightly below last year’s result, Rukwied explained during a farm visit in Frankfurt. Warm and moist conditions were promoting rot in the potato crop, […]
By Amanda Perobelli and Lisandra Paraguassu ELDORADO DO SUL, Brazil (Reuters) – After three days of ferocious rains, Edite de Almeida and her husband fled their flooded home in early May and let loose their humble dairy herd on higher ground. Nearby, the waters rose above her head and within a day they were lapping […]
Bill Gates Harvests $113 Million In Nebraska Farmland, Takes Out $700 Million In Loans Over the past six years, billionaire Bill Gates has spent more than $113 million purchasing Nebraska farmland and has taken out two loans totaling $700 million against it. Gates owns about 20,000 acres of farmland in Nebraska, where longtime friend and […]
It was a buck like he’d never seen. A 15-point with double rows of tines, and the symmetry is remarkable. So much so, Johnathan Fortenberry of Magnolia thought someone was playing a joke on him. However, it wasn’t a joke and Mississippi’s worst weather of the year so far combined with determination put Fortenberry in […]