Britain’s harshest winter in living memory creates record early start for English apples
July 25, 2009
Filed under england, UK
Tags: apples, Britain, climate, climate change, cold, cold winter, cool, england, English apples, farming, global cooling, Global Freeze, global freezing, global warming, harshest winter, temperature, temperatures, UK, unusual cold, unusually cold, weather, winter
Record early start for English apples
http://www.internationalsupermarketnews.com
Friday, 24 July 2009
Britain’s harshest winter in living memory followed by a very warm spring have helped create a record for the earliest ever arrival in stores in the UK of English apples. Created in what producers have called near perfect growing conditions, the crop of Discovery apples – traditionally the season’s first – are considered high quality by experts.
Cold and wet triggers $21.5 million in insurance payments to farmers
July 22, 2009
Filed under Canada
Tags: brrr, Canada, Canadian Wheat Board, chilly, climate, climate change, cold, cold July, cold summer, cool, cool summer, cool temperatures, farming, global cooling, Global Freeze, global freezing, global warming, Interlake, Manitoba, Prairie, temperature, temperatures, unusual cold, unusually cold, weather
Too wet, chilly to seed
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com
17 July 2009
Farmers get $21.5M in insurance payouts
Springtime flooding and cool, wet weather at planting time caused 420,000 acres of Manitoba farmland to go unseeded this year, triggering $21.5 million in insurance payments to farmers.
The provincial government is expected to announce today that grim economic hit from the bad weather.
Heavy losses as sheep, cattle ranchers slog through blizzards, mud, chilly weather
May 2, 2009
Filed under USA, Wyoming
Tags: blizzard, brrr, cattle, cattle losses, Cheyenne, chilly, chilly weather, climate, climate change, cold, farming, global cooling, Global Freeze, global warming, North Dakota, record snow, record snowfall, snow record, snowfall record, temperature, temperatures, USA, weather, Wyoming
Heavy losses as sheep, cattle ranchers slog through blizzards, mud, chilly weather
http://www.chicagotribune.com
April 29, 2009
CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Snowy, soggy, chilly weather has taken a severe toll on sheep and cattle across the northern Great Plains this spring.
California citrus farmers brace for more cold weather
December 19, 2008
Filed under California, USA
Tags: California, chilly, climate, climate change, cold, farming, global cooling, Global Freeze, global warming, USA, weather, winter
California citrus farmers brace for more cold weather
http://www.recordnet.com
December 17, 2008
FRESNO — Citrus growers are scrambling to keep their groves warm to protect fragile trees from more unseasonably cold weather.
