MADRID—More than 50 people were evacuated Monday from areas in northern Spain hit by record flooding following heavy rain and snowfall. Spanish authorities blamed the flooding of swollen rivers for the deaths of at least two people since Friday, and the regions of Navarra and Aragón remained under severe weather warnings. In Novillas, a village…

Commentary When you read the word technology, what images spring to mind? Smartphones, supercomputers, superfast search engines, self-driving cars, and so on. It’s important to remember that technology is simply the application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes. It’s a broad definition, meaning technology comes in many forms. Take seed technology, as in all the…

United States agricultural suppliers are sounding the alarm over the rising cost of fertilizers that threatens to lower crop yields and worsen strains on global food supplies. “It’s put a stranglehold on us,” said John Ortiz, sales manager at BigYield.us in Garden City, Missouri, an organization focused on creating strategies that increase the size and…

Exceptional crop yields across Australia have been complemented by strong prices but wet weather in parts has brought an anxious wait for those harvesting. At 10 p.m. on Oct. 26 a jubilant Oscar Pearse had just started harvest and put a call out for more help on social media. “Didn’t plan for pleasant surprises,” he…

Crop futures eased to finish the Tuesday trading session after the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) published its October World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report.   The U.S. government raised its 2021-2022 domestic soybean output projections by 74 million bushels to 4.4 billion bushels. It lifted U.S. soybean inventory expectations for the current marketing…

A drought is a prolonged shortage in the water supply. They can last for months or years and have a huge impact on the local ecosystem and economy. We just happen to live a severely drought stricken part of Nebraska. Every step sounds like crunching on egg shells. In large parts of the country, crops…

California farmers produce about two-thirds of the fruits and nuts in the United States, plus one-third of the nation’s vegetables. As of April of this year, the National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS) announced that more than three-quarters of the state had entered moderate to severe drought conditions. Agriculture is an important part of California’s…

New South Wales (NSW) is lifting its ban on genetically modified crops to deliver a multi-billion-dollar boost to its primary industry. Adopting the genetically modified (GM) technology is estimated by the government to deliver up to $4.8 billion in financial gains across New South Wales’ primary industries over the next ten years. Announcing the NSW government’s…

China’s northeastern Heilongjiang province has officially reported 448 confirmed cases of COVID-19 as of Jan. 18 but the public believes that the actual situation is much worse than the official data. Wangkui County is the epicenter of the outbreak in the province. The situation is getting more severe, residents have told The Epoch Times. Local governments are…

With exercise restricted in England by lockdown laws, some walkers are inadvertently damaging crops as they eschew public footpaths churned into mud by unprecedented footfall, according to a rural business group. The solution, according to the Country Land and Business Association (CLA), is simple: put on a pair of wellies. “It is perfectly natural, in times…