RECORD HARVESTS/RESURGENCE OF LIFE AROUND THE GLOBE
“Doublethink is the acceptance of or mental capacity to accept contrary opinions or beliefs at the same time, especially as a result of political indoctrination.”
George Orwell, from “1984”
May 15, 2014 – El Nino’s threat to major food crop yields
May 20, 2015 – Confirmed El Niño Means Big U.S. Harvests
The quotes above show that the folks in charge are not your friends, and are lying to you about basically everything, including record harvests, and " El Nino ", a slightly-warmer-than-normal and only-periodically-occurring spot of water in the vastness of the Pacific ocean that is reputed to have near-magical properties.
It’s June, 2017, and Nature is booming and burgeoning to a level not seen in my lifetime. Since that statement directly refutes our State Religion, which holds the " Poor Mother Gaia is Dying, Crushed by the Virus-Like Burden of Mankind ", I’ve appended, below, chronologially-organized examples of record harvests and resurgence of life from around the globe, starting from the beginning of this thread on June 13, 2013, up through page 68, July 15, 2016.
I’ve concluded that this great explosion of life is being driven by two things. The first being the breaking of the great artificial drought by the slow, steady, widespread and ever-increasing distribution of simple, inexpensive Orgonite devices in the vicinity of the weather warfare infrastructure that many still mistakenly presume only carries cell phone traffic and weather radar data.
The other is the general increase in the larger environment of Life energy, Chi, Prana, call it what you will, as the aforementioned Death-energy-based weather warfare system continues to be taken off-line and transformed by Ogonite’s ongoing influence. Wilhelm Reich called these forces, respectively, “Positive Orgone Radiation”, or POR, and “Dead Orgone Radiation”, or DOR.
The world is simply going back to the way it used to be . It’s just that, over a hundred years, or two, we’ve been conditioned ceaselessly to forget.
I’ll keep at it until we’re up to the current date - not that the data below doesn’t already more than prove my thesis.
This thread will be moving into it’s fourth year in just under two weeks…
2012 – The gross production value of all the county’s wine grape crops in 2012 was $821.3 million – an increase of 41 percent over the $581 million gross value in 2011
2012 – America’s pistachio growers are on track to their biggest crop ever this year.
Record harvest in 2012-13 for Kentucky deer hunters
May, 2013 – Farmers anticipate near-record almond crop . For the second time in three years, California almond growers may produce a crop of 2 billion pounds or more.
May 10, 2013 - U.S. corn futures fell after the government forecast a record crop and higher-than-expected stockpiles
May 15, 2013 - Wine production in South Africa is expected to reach an all-time high
May 23, 2013 - Student science experiment finds plants won’t grow near Wi-Fi router
June, 2013 – With a potential record grape crop on the vines, San Joaquin Valley looks at early start
June, 2013 – In its report this week, USDA pegged U.S. soybean output at a record 3.39 billion bushels from the 2013-14 harvest that starts Sept. 1.
June, 2013 - Corn farmers are feeling the impact of a cool, wet spring but are still expected to bring in a record crop this year
June, 2013 – The 2013 harvest season exceeded the expectations of the South African wine industry…this will be the biggest wine grape crop ever produced
June, 2013 – Rice output in India is set to climb to a record as early arrival of monsoon rains over the biggest growing regions spurs planting
Showers have been 23 percent more than a 50-year average since June 1, with Andhra Pradesh getting at least 70 percent more rains , bureau data showed. Andhra Pradesh and West Bengal are the nation’s top growers, representing about 29 percent of the crop."
June 4, 2013 – Maryland Hunters Report Record Spring Turkey Season Harvest
June 13, 2013 – Carondelet Gardens Urban Farms will be harvesting a record 18,000 heads of garlic in St. Louis this week, which means there will be plenty to meet its high demand at Saturday’s annual Garlic Fest.
June 13, 2013 - United Nations News Centre - UN agency forecasts record harvests
July, 2013 - Indiana crops are bouncing back with an expected record breaking yield
July, 2013 - Brazil bumps up record corn, soybean forecasts
July, 2013 – the U.S. Department of Agriculture is estimating an average rice yield of 6,400 pounds per acre in Louisiana, overtaking the current record of 6,300 pounds,
July 9, 2013 - Rising Carbon Dioxide Levels Cause Desert Greening , Satellite Observations Reveal
“According to new research reported in the Geophysical Research Letters, increased levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) over the past three decades have caused an 11 percent increase in green foliage over the globe’s arid regions through a process called CO2 fertilization .”
August 15, 2013 - “Larry Robinson…(has) been giving horse-drawn wagon rides through the “desert” for nearly two decades under company name Spirit Sands Wagon Outfitters. (His tours include) a stop at the Devil’s Punch Bowl, a 45-metre depression of sand where blue-green water pools.”
"This year alone has seen a surge in vegetative cover, thanks to rain seemingly every second or third day in the Spirit Sands, as the dunes are called."
" The Manitoba government has not ruled out using herbicides to stop vegetation from covering the sandhills at Spruce Hills Provincial Park, said Conservation Minister Gord Mackintosh.
Other options to preserve the sandhills include controlled burns and plowing up the vegetation to bring back exposed sand. Part of the justification is that Manitoba will lose unique species such as skinks, our only native lizard, that rely on areas of open sand."
"The area ‘looked like the Sahara’ two decades ago."
August 12, 2013 – USDA today projected that farmers will harvest a record corn crop of 13.76 billion bushels in 2013.
August 13, 2013 - A cherry good year! As British growers celebrate a record harvest , they are calling it the greatest cherry harvest ever.
August 18, 2013 – ‘Perfect’ weather brings bumper apple harvest - BBC News
(Note quotations inserted to question - ed)
August 21, 2013 – Canadian farmers anticipate record canola production in 2013
August 21, 2013 - Canadian farmers may harvest the most wheat in 22 years
August 23, 2013 – Apple crop strongest in years
August 23, 2013 – Miracle grow: Indian farmers smash crop yield records without GMO
August 25, 2013 – 2013 corn crop could set record , soybeans could be third largest
August 27, 2013 - Grain-Carrier Rates Rising as Crop Cargoes Near Record
August 28, 2013 – Farm income poised for record in 2013: USDA
August 31, 2013 - New England sees a return of forests, wildlife
September 26, 2013 - Ukraine’s grain harvest to hit record high in 2013
October 1, 2013 - Michigan apple growers scramble to harvest potential record-setting crop
October 9, 2013 - Oregon, Washington pear growers expect near-record harvest
October 10, 2013 - Alaska salmon harvest breaks new record
October 12, 2013 - Another record grape harvest
October 17, 2013 - the 2013 pink salmon harvest was nearly three times that of 2011 , with a preliminary estimate of 90 million fish being caught this year.
October 17, 2013 - Cotton harvest could break record
October 20, 2013 - Cranberry season to see record harvest
October 22, 2013 - USDA predicts record-setting corn harvest
October 23, 2013 - Moose harvest is third largest on record
October 23, 2013 - Record wheat harvest causes prices to plummet - Silos overflowing with bin-busting bumper crop
October 23, 2013 - Phillipines to export corn grains for the first time on record harvest
December 23, 2013 - ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - A 13-year study of coral reefs spontaneously recovering in the Cayman Islands offers hope of refuting often doomsday forecasts about the worldwide decline of the colorful marine habitat.
Scientists monitoring the Cayman reefs noted a 40 percent decline in live coral cover between 1999 and 2004 during a period of warmer seas in the Caribbean.
However, seven years later, the amount, size and density of the live coral had returned to 1999 levels as sea temperatures eased, according to Tom Frazer, professor of aquatic ecology at the University of Florida and part of the research team.
“People have said these systems don’t have a chance,” Frazer told Reuters. “What we are saying is: ‘Hey, this is evidence they do have a chance.’”
February 6, 2014 – 2013 was a record-breaking year for Alaska’s wild salmon harvest.
February 10, 2014 –This second consecutive record grape harvest stretched capacity to its fullest.
February 11, 2014 - Bumper crop harvest for Western and South Australia
February 14, 2014 – Delaware hunters harvested 14,263 deer during 2013, the harvest ranked third all-time.
February 14, 2014 – India likely to see record rice, wheat & pulses harvests this year
February 15, 2014 - California Wine Growers Celebrating a Record Harvest
February 21, 2014 – U.S. agriculture booms to record highs | PBS NewsHour
March 14, 2014 –Southeast sees record tanner crab harves t. Southeast Alaska commercial crab boats caught around 1.25 million pounds of Tanner crab last month, the biggest catch in over a decade.
March 24, 2014 – BUENOS AIRES The biggest soy harvest ever seen on the Pampas farm belt started last week.
April 6, 2014 – Wyoming Sees Another Record Elk Harvest
April 13, 2014 – The 2012-2013 Chesapeake Bay oyster harvest was about 340,000 oyster bushels and while this season’s numbers have not been fully tallied, he expects the number to be significantly higher. He said that the harvest in 2004 brought only 26,000 bushels of oysters across the bay.
April 14, 2014 – 2013 bear harvest second highest on record.
April 24, 2014 – N.C. deer numbers recovered from disease last year to help hunters hit a record-high deer harvest.
May 5, 2014 – Albany — New York’s long-awaited deer harvest tally for the 2013-14 … New York hunters last year killed a record number of bucks.
May 5, 2014 – Fresno, CA - Feds forecast strong almond crop despite drought June 15, 2014 - The most recent Australian wheat harvest soared to a record 25 million tons, up 119% from 2013.
May 9, 2014 - USDA predicts record corn harvest
July 8, 2014 - Weather underpins hopes for huge US corn crop
(Carefully omits “cool” and “rainy” - ed)
Weather forecasts maintained hope for US corn production prospects as crops entered the key pollination period in historically strong condition, with soybeans and spring wheat seen thriving too.
An outlook for temperatures to remain below average throughout the Midwest over the next 10 days “sets the stage for excellent pollination conditions”, said Paul Georgy, president of Chicago broker Allendale.
"If the forecast comes true it would make it the fourth coolest pollination period since 1980.
(Quite a thing in the hottest year in recorded history - ed)
“This would put this year in the category with 2004 and 2009 when record yields were set in corn.”
US farmers achieved a corn yield of 160.3 bushels per acre in 2004, beating by a margin the previous record of 142.2 bushels per acre set the previous year, while in 2009 setting the current all-time high of 164.7 bushels per acre.
Cool conditions are beneficial to pollination, with heat and dryness hampering the process, as seen in 2012, when the yield fell to 123.4 bushels per acre, the lowest since 1995.
’Bumper yield prospects’
At RJ O’ Brien, Richard Feltes also highlighted that the two-week outlook for Midwest temperatures was “not only cooler than last week’s models, but normal-to-below average through the peak of corn pollination in mid-July”.
He added: "US farmers, grown accustomed to sub-160 bushels per acre US corn yields in eight of the last 10 years, are unexpectedly faced with the prospect of a 170 bushels-per- acre 2014 US corn yield."
The comments followed the release of data overnight showing that as of Sunday 15% of corn was silking, part of the pollination process, at a time when 75% of the crop was in “good” or “excellent” condition.
While unchanged on the week, that rating was the second best of the past 20 years for the time of year , beaten only by the 1999 figure.
‘High humidity was beneficial’
The increase reflected largely an improvement in southern growing states, such as Texas, where USDA scouts reports that " corn experienced rapid growth as a result of recent rainfall ", with 66% rated good or excellent, up 2 points week on week.
In Kansas, where " cooler temperatures prevailed and rain fell " last week in southern parts of the state last week, the proportion of corn rated good or excellent increased by 3 points to 58%.
Spring wheat is flourishing’
Indeed, the proportion of Iowa soybeans rated good or excellent fell too, by 2 points to 73%, although this was, again, insufficient to offset improvements in other states, such as Kansas, Kentucky and Nebraska.
The rating of the national crop, steady at 72% good or excellent, is the best in 20 years for the time of year.
For spring wheat, the proportion seen as in good or excellent condition held at 70%, including 83% of the crop in North Dakota, the top growing state.
"Northern spring wheat is flourishing in a cool, rainy summer," said Gail Martell at Martell Crop Projections.
July 9, 2014 - Almond Board Predicts Record Almond Harvest
Despite an ongoing drought , the California Almond Board recently announced a record almond objective crop forecast for the 2014-15 season . Based on 860,000 acres, the predicted harvest is expected to be 2.10 billion meat pounds in California — another all-time record.
July 14, 2014 - Bristol Bay salmon harvests, forecasts continue to increase with 27 million fish landed
It is mid July, and Bristol Bay is still having million fish days. Last week, 5 of the last six days saw more than 1 million fish being landed. This year the run is having an extraordinary long tail - compared to the past three years - and as a result, run totals, and harvest totals, keep climbing.
August 16, 2014 – Near-perfect weather raises hopes for bountiful harvest in Iowa.
August 21, 2014 - NZ wine exports at record high after bumper grape harvest
WELLINGTON, Aug. 21 (Xinhua) – Exports of New Zealand wines hit a new record in the year to the end of June, as wineries saw a bumper grape harvest, the New Zealand Winegrowers industry group announced Thursday.
August 24, 2014 - Forecast: Near-record Michigan apple harvest seen
LANSING, Mich. – Michigan’s apple crop should be among its best ever , according to a new report.
The U.S. Apple Association Outlook Conference in Chicago on Friday forecast that Michigan will have a 2014 harvest of about 29 million bushels. That’s close to the 30 million bushel record set in 2013.
"The crop is looking great," Diane Smith, executive director of the Michigan Apple Committee, told the Detroit Free Press (http://on.freep.com/1zoGhZG ). “We grow apples pretty much across the state. The size of them is incredible. The quality is great. We’ve had a lot of up and down years and to have a back-to-back fantastic crop is wonderful.”
This year’s bumper crop is the result of ideal weather, Smith said.
Michigan’s apple growers have plenty of rain, cool nights and sunny days , she said. In addition, growers have gained through high-density plantings of about 1,000 trees per acre and from advances in technology, such as new techniques to prune trees and pick fruit, she said.
(I guess the grape growers in New Zealand in the previous example have high-density grapes coming on line and new grape-picking techniques - ed)
September 5, 2014 - Perfect weather yields bumper cereal harvest for British farmers … “And the winter barley was a record: the best I’ve ever got, ” he says.
September 12, 2014 – Big 2014 Corn, Soybean Crops Got Bigger
Farmers in Iowa and other Corn Belt states will harvest bumper corn and soybean crops this year, as most growers have benefited from favorable weather conditions this year , according to USDA’s latest monthly forecast. After forecasting a record harvest in August, the agriculture department boosted its corn and soybean estimates to new highs in its September Crop Production Report.
Issued Sept. 11 and based on in the field conditions in early September, the report says farmers will harvest 14.395 billion bushels of corn nationwide in 2014, up from last month’s forecast of 14.032 billion . Soybean harvest estimates were increased to 3.913 billion bushels from 3.816 billion forecast in August. Yields were also boosted to 171.7 bushels per acre for corn and 46.6 bushels for soybeans, both new records.
Large acreage, good weather, big yields add up to huge harvest
" From the north to the south this has been a year when weather has been mainly favorable ," says Don Roose, president of U.S. Commodities in West Des Moines.
September 15, 2014 – Record sugar beet crop in Montana
September 20, 2014 - WENATCHEE — Apple harvest on track towards another record crop
Apples, apples, everywhere.
Just three weeks into the state’s most bountiful fruit harvest, apple orchardists say the 2014 crop is on track to be the largest in history as good weather continues and high-density acreage reaches full production .
“Great harvests come in cycles,” said Todd Fryhover, president of the Washington Apple Commission. “Some years production’s on, some years it’s off. This is definitely one of the ‘on’ years.”
(if it’s just that it’s an “on” year, what’s with the headline, " another record crop"? - ed)
Fryhover said harvests of early varieties — such as Galas, Goldens, Honeycrisp and some Fujis and Red Delicious — are showing strong yields with good size and color at most locations around the region .
Contributing to this year’s record crop, said Fryhover, are two major factors — good weather and increased production of high-yield varieties .
Without sweeping killer frosts, windstorms or damaging rainstorms, the region’s apple crop moved into the prime growing months in good shape, said Fryhover. “And the last two weeks have provided perfect weather — hot days, cool nights — that brings out the best in the fruit.”
(I guess the beet growers in the previous example have high-yield beets coming on line and improved beet-picking techniques - ed)
September 5, 2014 - Perfect weather yields bumper cereal harvest for British farmers. “I hadn’t planned on this barn being this full,” says Andrew Barr, as he runs the foxy-red wheat grains through his hands. A great wall of straw bales is holding back 300 tonnes of wheat and that is just a tenth of the harvest from Barr’s East Lenham farm in Kent. “And the winter barley was a record : the best I’ve ever got,” he says.
September 22, 2014 – South Africa – (Wheat) Yield increased due to excellent mid-season rainfall and crop conditions. September 25, 2014 – U.S. global crop production sets records
September 28, 2014 – Record Global Soybean, Wheat Crops Expected
September 29, 2014 – 2014 China Cereal Harvest Forecast At Record Level
October 1, 2014 – There were a total of 131,395 deer taken in the 2012-13 to set the new harvest record . Last season, Kentucky hunters shattered that record by taking 144,409 deer.
October 1, 2014 – 2014 has seen a record tonnage of malting barley harvested for Bruichladdich on Islay. A grand total of 1,295 tonnes has been gathered in and delivered to the dryihng sheds at Octofad on the Rhinns. This represents a remarkable increase of 39% over the total achieved last year.
(must be high-yield barley coming online, and improved barley-harvesting techniques - ed)
October 1, 2014 – North Carolina - The 2013-14 deer harvest was 12.5 percent higher than the 2012-13 harvest of 167,249. It was also 6.7 percent higher than the previous record.
November 3, 2014 – 2014 Sees Record Harvests Worldwide
November 5, 2014 - Soybeans and corn declined for a third day as U.S. farmers made progress bringing in a record harvest of both crops.
November 9, 2014 - Tunisia announces record olive harvest
November 9, 2014 – Salem Harvest event yields record amount of squash
November 10, 2014 – Water use is lower than it’s been in 45 years. U.S. population has grown by 105 million people since 1970, yet we somehow shrank our water footprint.
November 12, 2014 - California’s Tomato Harvest Defies Withering Drought Conditions ; Breaks Records
November 13, 2014 - Despite a record 2014 US soybean harvest
November 14, 2014 – Near-record juice grape harvest in Washington
November 18, 2014 – Corn Falls as Record Harvest Nears Completion
November 21, 2014 –Arkansas - a mild summer and fall, coupled with heavy rainfall throughout the state, appear to have delivered surprisingly high yields for both rice and cotton.
November 25, 2014 – Record sugarcane harvest in South-Central Brazil
November 26, 2014 - Walleye regulations will be more restrictive on Upper Red Lake following record walleye harvests the past winter
November 27, 2014 – As cranberry farmers bring in record harvests and berry prices plummet…
December 16, 2014 – How record crops generate food inequality
December 26, 2014 - Global wheat production set new records in 2013 and 2014 , contradicting alarmists’ claims that global warming is reducing wheat harvests
2015 – Russia’s agriculture export to China is booming | Russian Industry
In 2015, Russian agricultural producers exported $20 billion worth of food goods, growing by 15 percent compared to the previous year
January 7, 2015 – Monsanto earnings fall 34% after a year of global protests | Business …
January 23, 2015 – Record Wheat Harvest Overshadows Russian Curbs
February 2, 2015 – Windfall for growers as ICoast posts record cocoa harvest - Phys.org
February 10, 2015 – 2014 marks 3rd record Washington wine grape harvest in a row
February 19, 2015 - MANHATTAN, Kansas — A recent study involving Kansas State University researchers finds that in the coming decades at least one-quarter of the world’s wheat production will be lost to extreme weather from climate change if no adaptive measures are taken.
February 21, 2015 – Vietnam – Cashew Crop Sets Record
March 6, 2015 – Record paddy harvest from Polonnaruwa
March 16, 2015 – Will 2015 Be the Best Mushroom Year Ever ?
March 23, 2015 – Zambia’s record harvest bursts its granaries … - MG Africa
March 26, 2015 – Argentina on track for record soybean harvest
March 27, 2015 – Productivity Rises in Global Agriculture
March 29, 2015 – Vietnam rice boom heaping pressure on farmers, environment - Phys.org
April 15, 2105 – United Kingdom – Cherry Growers predict record crop for second year running thanks to the good weather.
April 20, 2015 - Oyster, clam aquaculture harvests make record gains in VA …
April 27, 2015 – Morocco expects record cereal harvest of 11 mln tonnes …
May 7, 2015 - North Carolina hasn’t experienced back-to-back deer-hunting seasons like 2013-14 and 2014-15 since records have been kept by the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission. In 2013-14, hunters tagged a record 188,130 whitetails. But in 2014-15, the harvest dropped a record 18.3 percent to 144,315 deer, the lowest harvest since 2005-06.
A huge mast crop, the largest in 25 years, dropped millions of acorns in the woods last fall. As a result deer didn’t have to travel long distances to find food and were less vulnerable to hunters, especially those in stands around fields or over bait piles.
“If people hunted field edges and agricultural areas, they may not have seen a lot of deer in the open because the deer stayed in the woods and ate acorns,” said Evin Stanford, the Commission’s lead deer biologist, who described the mast crop as the second-largest since 1983 .
May 12, 2015 – Rabat- Morocco’s cereal harvest reached a record 11 million tons in the current crop year, up 63% compared to last year , Agriculture and Fisheries minister Aziz Akhannouch announced Tuesday.
May 20, 2015 – Tanzania coffee harvest, exports to hit record high
May 20, 2015 – Record Breaking Alaskan Wild Salmon Harvest Expected …
May 27, 2015 – 2015 Spring Gobbler Season A Record Harvest
June 1, 2015 – Ethiopia to help East Africa to record coffee harvest
June 3, 2015 – Fresno, CA - 2015 processing tomato crop could be record high
June 4, 2015 – East Africa’s 2015-16 Coffee Harvest Expected To Hit Record High …
June 15, 2015 – Triad blueberry farmers expect record harvest
June 16, 2015 – Record for 2014 Dutch strawberry harvest
June 18, 2015 – Seeka reports record crop volumes for 2014-15 harvest …
June 20, 2015 - Signs indicate numbers up to three million pounds of crab could exceed last year’s record harvest
June 23, 2015 – Corn Futures Drop as U.S. Farmers Start Harvesting Record Crop
June 23, 2015 - Foodmageddon could be just 3 steps away
June 24, 2015 – Washington, Oregon Set To Harvest Record Blueberry Crops
July 3, 2015 – Ukraine to reach the record harvest and export volumes of soybeans. In the current MY, in terms of favorable weather conditions Ukraine may reach the record indices of the general harvest and exports of soybeans, declared Oleksiy Pavlenko, Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine, on July 2.
July 5, 2015 – California’s farm economy "ruined" | San Diego Reader
July 7, 2015 - French wheat harvest to be among highest on record.
July 17, 2015 – Australia - Olive oil producer Cobram Estate posts record harvest
July 17, 2015 – Coffee exports from India seen climbing as record harvest looms
July 22, 2015 – Germany - Record yield of strawberries in Brandenburg in 2015. This year’s strawberry harvest is 9 percent higher than last year , with 9180 kg per hectare, according to preliminary information. This is the highest yield per hectare since 1991.
July 22, 2015 – Western Alaska is in midst of one of the best salmon runs in decades , and that means both subsistence and commercial fishermen in waters around Norton Sound and Kotzebue are catching record numbers of chum. “We’d forecasted a commercial harvest of 70-100,000 [of chum] and we’re going to blow right through that ” said Jim Menard, the Arctic Area Manager for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. The latest numbers point to Norton Sound passing 120,000 chums , the best harvest since 1986.
July 22, 2015 - Wheat, corn down on good crop weather. … positive U.S. harvest weather continued to raise prospects for good supplies.
July 31, 2015 – Soybeans estimated to reach record year in 2015
August 1, 2015 – Columbia, MO - Crop-growing season could be wettest on record for 121 years
August 3, 2015 – Texas Fine Wine Predicts 2015 Harvest to be Banner Year
August 5, 2015 – Crab Market Report, August, 2015 - In the 2014-15 season, Alaska harvested a record 5 million pounds vs. a 10 year average of 3.78mm lbs.
August 5, 2015 – Some Midwest farmers’ crops falter in record rains
August 7, 2015 – France to harvest record wheat crop this year
August 11, 2015 – Grain harvest sets record - with near perfect weather nurturing strong harvests in India, the EU, and the United States.
August 11, 2015 – Grain harvest sets record , but supplies still tight . Globally, wheat harvests increased modestly , by 2 percent, to 605 million tons, with near perfect weather nurturing strong harvests in India, the EU, and the United States.
The amount of grain stored by governments— a good measure of the global cushion against poor harvests and rising prices—continues to decline. Global cereal stocks were expected to stand at 318 million tons by the close of the 2007 season, equivalent to about 14 percent of annual consumption. These stocks, and the stock-to-use ratio, built up by bumper crops in the 1980s and the late 1990s, are now substantially below their all-time high.
Despite the record harvest, the low stocks and strong demand combined to push prices of all cereals to new highs.
August 11, 2015 – United Kingdom - Some very high yields are being reported as harvest 2015 progresses. “The Picto looked exceptional at late flowering and at harvest it stood well, was very thick - the best looking crop we’ve seen on the farm ,” says Mr Lamyman. We budget on 10.5t/ha for first wheats after potatoes and hope for 11-12t/ha, and 13t/ha is the highest we’ve ever had ”, he says. “We thought the crops looked good, but not that good.”
Stanley Bank Farm, near Leominster in Herefordshire, grower Matt Duggan’s crop of oilseed rape variety Advance, harvested last weekend, yielded 5.32t/ha with an oil content of 47.8% - the highest recorded so far by local grain trader Luke Saunders of A&N Grain Trading.
“This is the best crop of rape we have ever grown,” says Mr Duggan.
August 11, 2015 – Fargo, N.D. - Weather providing good harvest conditions for ND farmers. The condition of potatoes were rated 64 percent good to excellent , and 8 percent poor or very poor.
Topsoil moisture conditions for the week were rated 75 percent adequate or surplus. Subsoil moisture was measured at 81 percent adequate or surplus. The report says some areas of row crops were starting to show some stress.
Pasture and range conditions were rated 65 percent good or excellent.
August 17, 2015 - Severe ‘Food Shocks’ More Likely Due to Extreme Weather , Experts Warn
Extreme weather such as intense storms, droughts and heatwaves will cause more frequent and severe food shortages as the global climate and food supply systems change.
August 24, 2015 – U.K. - Photos: World record wheat yield harvest - Farmers Weekly
August 26, 2015 – Despite drought, California has record high crop revenue - USA Today
August 31, 2015 – Florida - Lobster season starts with record harvest, low prices .
Commercial fishermen Gary Nichols and George Niles said “It has been good as it’s ever been,”
August 31, 2015 – Ukrainian farmers harvest record grain crop
September 4, 2015 – Australia - The national papaya crop, which peaks between now and November, will yield the ‘heaviest spring crop on record,’ according to grower Gerard Kath. Two successive years of favourable weather conditions have meant minimal tree loss, and successful harvest for growers of the tropical fruit.
September 7, 2015 – Yukon River coho harvest sets record.
This year’s harvest of coho salmon on the Yukon River is the largest on record , with over a thousand fish caught. That’s almost twice as much as Fish and Game’s preseason projection. The record-breaking harvest comes out of a run that managers do not know much about , including how many fish are returning to their spawning grounds.
September 7, 2015 - This year’s harvest of coho salmon on the Yukon River is the largest on record,
September 9, 2015 - French wheat exports to drop - despite record harvest
September 11, 2015 – Chinook harvest in lower Columbia highest on record. The 5,928 adult summer chinook kept from the lower Columbia mainstem sport fishery this year is the largest catch since at least 1965.
September 12, 2015 - Mississippi Alligator Hunting Season Yields Record Harvest.
MDWFP attributes this year’s record harvest to increased hunter experience and their knowledge of good hunting areas.
September 12, 2015 – Early hunt success could mean record goose harvest
September 14, 2015 – SD farmers ready to harvest record crops
September 14, 2015 -Oregon - Last year’s wine harvest was the biggest on record
September 16, 2015 – Fall harvest may yield Kentucky’s largest soybean crop …
September 16, 2015 – It may not be just a good year, but rather a record year for Kentucky soybean producers. According to figures from the National Agriculture Statistics Service, this year’s soybean harvest in the state is projected at 92 million bushels, which would make it the largest soybean harvest on record. The forecast is up ten percent from 2014.
September 18, 2015 – Washington State’s 2015 Grape Harvest Could Break Yet Another Record
September 18, 2015 - The ongoing drought hasn’t fazed Washington winegrowers this season.
Most of the U.S. West Coast has been mired in a drought and record heat for more than two years. Fortunately for fans of Washington wine, no place is better prepared than a wine country that is already basically a desert. The drought doesn’t seem to have slowed down the grapevines one bit.
September 23, 2015 – Iowa - Harvest expected to push record levels. USDA pegs second-best year for corn, best for soybeans
September 25, 2015 – Alaska sees near-record potato harvest. “I had been growing potatoes for 45 years and I had never had to throw any potatoes away,” VanderWeele said . “In the 2013 crop I threw a little bit away. In the 2014 crop, I probably threw 100 tons of spuds away. I think it’s ridiculous.”
September 25, 2015 – Alaska Sees Near-Record Potato Harvest
I had been growing potatoes for 45 years and I had never had to throw any potatoes away,” VanderWeele said. “In the 2013 crop I threw a little bit away. In the 2014 crop, I probably threw 100 tons of spuds away. I think it’s ridiculous.”
September 28, 2015 – Some South Dakota harvest slowed by rain
(October 20, 2015 - Dry weather aids South Dakota harvest , increases fire danger)
October 1, 2015 – Minnesota - Pumpkin Growers Expect to Challenge State Records at Stillwater Harvest Fest. The 2015 pumpkin-growing season has been nearly ideal, with very few extreme-weather events and temperatures near historical averages that have enabled growers to maximize productivity in the patch.
October 2, 2015 – NASA Visible Earth: Record harvest in Southwest Australia …
October 4, 2015 – Arkansas Wine Grape Harvest Best In Years
October 6, 2015 – SD harvest of record-yielding corn crop underway
October 7, 2015 – Oklahoma - Record deer harvest expected as archery season begins.
The extra rain this year contributed to an increase in deer reproduction and a record harvest is expected.
October 7, 2015 – Florida – Another record gator harvest. Preliminary harvest reports and surveys submitted for 2015 indicate a record harvest of more than 980 alligators.
October 8, 2015 – United Kingdom - The NFU’s annual harvest survey indicates record wheat yields, although good harvests across the globe are proving to be a double-edged sword farmers as downward pressure continues to be exerted in the marketplace.
October 8, 2015 – United Kingdom - This year’s harvest is set to become the biggest wheat yield on record
October 8, 2015 – U.K. - This year’s harvest is set to see the biggest wheat yield on record , with grain analysis results also looking ‘very encouraging’, according to NFU survey results. But the NFU has warned the record yields will only add to the current problems in the marketplace.
The survey results indicate a six per cent wheat yield increase to 9.1 tonnes per hectare in 2015, compared with 8.6t/ha last year. While planted area was down this year , UK total wheat production is estimated at 16.68 million tonnes for 2015, a slight increase on the 2014 figure of 16.61m
October 9, 2015 – WASHINGTON - The first canola production forecast for the United States for 2015 is 3.09 billion pounds, up 23% from 2014 , and will be the largest production on record, if realized , according to the USDA.
October 11, 2015 – Georgia - Peanut harvest is underway across South Georgia and experts say this is the best crop in Georgia and US history.
October 12, 2015 – Fargo, N.D. - Sugar beet harvest is going to set records
October 12, 2015 – A record harvest of coldwater shrimp landed in Washington this year will now carry the MSC label
October 13, 2015 - Most US crops got smaller in October USDA Report
October 14, 2015 – Nebraska - Harvest lags , but crops are in record-yield shape . A weekly federal report says Nebraska corn and soybean harvests are running behind the average completion for the date, but a big share of all the big fall harvested row crops are in unprecedented good condition.
How good is that? Scott Keller, statistician at the USDA’s regional field office of the National Agricultural Statistics Service in Lincoln, said corn, soybeans and sorghum are all expected to set yield records in Nebraska.
October 15, 2015 – Olive oil producers expect record harvest. California olive oil producers are expected to bring in a record 4 million gallons of extra virgin olive oil with the 2015 harvest, now getting underway, the California Olive Oil Council estimated. That represents a huge jump from 2014 production of just 2.4 million gallons.
October 15, 2015 - California olive oil producers expect record 4 million gallon harvest, a huge jump from 2014 production of just 2.4 million gallons.
(April 9, 2015 - California Is In The Middle Of Its Worst Drought In 1,200 years.)
October 20, 2015 - Growers face price slide amid record walnut harvest . RED BLUFF, Calif. — Walnut growers in California are moving quickly through their harvest of an anticipated record crop as a price slide heralds the first sign of vulnerability for the Golden State’s enduring nut boom.
With harvests entering their final stages, growers say they’re on a pace to at least flirt with the National Agricultural Statistics Service projection of a record 575,000-ton crop despite the drought and a lack of chilling hours last winter.
At Lindauer River Ranch in Red Bluff, yields from the young walnut groves are set to double again this year , farm manager Michael Vasey said.
“I’d say we’ve got a pretty strong crop,” Vasey said. “My walnuts are in growth mode. They’re young and coming on. It’s more than last year.”
October 20, 2015 – La Crosse, WI - Area farmers should see record harvest , low commodity prices . The fall harvest is well underway and farmers are seeing a bumper crop of corn and soybeans in Minnesota and Wisconsin.
The great weather Wisconsin had this spring, summer and fall deserves much of the credit for the good harvest, Western Technical College farm business production management instructor Brad Sirianni said.
October 20, 2015 – Great Bend, KS – Kansas record fall harvest brings unexpected challenges. This year’s fall harvest is surpassing Kansas farmers’ expectations. Timely rains plus improved agriculture practices have produced record amounts of grain.
October 20, 2015 –Anyone who has ever driven through the Red River Valley in October, whether on the Minnesota or the North Dakota side, knows it’s sugarbeet harvest as truck after truck overflowing with the crop carries them to piling stations. This year, trucks and processing plants were barely able to keep up with what is proving to be a bumper harvest of sugarbeets.
“It seems to me we are on track to have a record crop,” said Tom Peters, extension sugarbeet agronomist with the University of North Dakota, Fargo.
Not only are Red River Valley sugarbeet growers expecting one of their best—if not the best —crops ever due to this year’s nearly ideal growing season , they are also enjoying stunning fall weather that is allowing the region to wrap up harvest early.
Sugarbeet harvests are evaluated on both yield and sugar content, and both are coming in at near record levels.
October 20, 2015 - The fall harvest is well underway and farmers are seeing a bumper crop of corn and soybeans in Minnesota and Wisconsin.
October 22, 2015 – Corn harvest across Kentucky could set record - Paducah Sun
October 22, 2015 – Alberta, Canada - A record-setting corn and soybean harvest for farmers …
October 27, 2015 - MOORHEAD, Minn. — The 2015 sugar beet crop hit a new record of about 27.7 tons per acre in the northern Red River Valley
November 1, 2015 – Nebraska - Bull elk harvest close to record
November 2, 2015 – Maryland - Record Number of Black Bears Harvested During 2015 …
November 6, 2015 – Iran expects record pomegranate harvest
November 8, 2015 - California Walnut Growers Anticipate Record Crop for 2015/16 Season.
November 9, 2015 – Iowa - Record crops + low prices = mountains of grain
November 9, 2015 – Kansas record fall harvest brings unexpected challenges
Timely rains plus improved agriculture practices have produced record amounts of grain. "About a half a million bushel more corn than normal , so our elevators are full.”
November 9, 2015 – Iowa Grain Elevators Bursting Under Record Harvest
November 10, 2015 - Wine Harvest 2015: Bordeax Winemakers Believe the Vintage is a Potential Classic
Mother Nature gave Bordeaux a beautiful growing season.
November 12, 2015 – Chile: Surplus plums due to record harvest
December 2, 2015 – Parts of the Mid-South on Track for Record Deer Harvest
December 3, 2015 – Estonia’s 2015 grain harvest 17% bigger in 2015
According to current data both summer and winter cereal harvests hit an all-time record this year ,"
December 4, 2015 – The Northern Wyoming Daily News reports that the Worland company’s vice president, Vince Salzman, says the 10,600 acres yielded 31.8 tons per acre with a sugar content of nearly 19.2 percent.
Salzman attributes the record year to the efficient work of the growers and Wyoming Sugar crew.
December 9, 2015 – A Californian enigma: Record-high agricultural revenues during the drought
December 15, 2015 – Brazil in recession, but farming is booming
December 22, 2015 – California - After a whirlwind, record-breaking harvest , the 2015 Jordan Estate Extra Virgin Olive Oil is now resting in its tanks here in our cellars
In just 10 days, from November 3 to the 13th, our staff and a hired crew picked 44 tons of olives, shattering any previous record in our two decades of growing olive trees on Jordan Estate . Last year, we picked 12 tons.
(a 266% increase over the previous year - ed)
The alternate bearing philosophy of the trees–one vintage bigger and the next one is smaller–may be out the window at Jordan. We continue to see extreme growth in total production of olives – most likely because the trees are coming into full maturity now that they are about 20 years old . We’ve also moved to picking the olives at a higher maturity level–riper, darker fruit–than in years past. Riper olives yield more oil per ton, so that ripeness decision–based on the chef’s desire for a fuller bodied, less pungent style of oil–means more oil from the same amount of trees.
(Ripe olives vs. less-ripe olives would not create an increase in olive tonnage, which is what’s being discussed. It’s a ruse - he’s suddenly changed it to “oil per ton” to muddy the water - ed)
Growing conditions were very good for olives in 2015 --no frost or big rains in the spring and a warm but not too hot summer–leading to an earlier harvest than usual–about three weeks ahead of schedule. Because the olive trees bloomed in April before the inclement weather that hit during the flowering of our grapes, there were ample flowers on the olive trees, signaling a decent-sized crop. Just before summer arrived, we noticed smaller-sized fruit was forming on the olive trees, which we attributed to the drought. We thought the smaller olives would also dictate the overall size of the harvest-- but the tiny olives grew in size to normal over the course of the summer.
(mentioning that the olives were small on the front end is another ruse - what’s that got to do with anything? “Tiny olives” and " are there to stick in your subconscious, in an article about the most olives, by a wide margin, in history. He’s shaking the “drought” subject at you like a voodoo doll - ed)
December 29, 2015 – India – Is agriculture the boom in 2016?
January 9, 2016 – West Virginia - WV hunters set bear harvest record
January 11, 2016 – Tennessee - Black Bear Season Ends With 3rd Highest Harvest On Record
January 11, 2016 – The Crop Surplus Is Bad News for America’s Farms - Bloomberg
January 13, 2016 – Agriculture is the next boom industry - Responsible Business
January 12, 2016 – Minnestoa - For MN farmers, record-busting 2015 harvest was too much …
January 12, 2016 – South Dakota - South Dakota farmers harvested record yields of corn and soybeans in 2015.
The state’s average corn yield was 159 bushels per acre, breaking the old record of 151 bushels per acre set in 2009, according to a USDA report. In addition, the state’s corn crop was the second largest all-time at 800 million bushels. The only crop that was larger was 803 million in 2013 when many more acres were planted to corn than in 2015.
“The state’s farmers were blessed with timely rains and near-ideal growing conditions most of the season ,” said Keith Alverson of Chester, president of the South Dakota Corn Growers Association.
January 14, 2016 – Australian agricultural school enrolments at a record high - ABC Rural …
January 20, 2016 - Brazil - Coffee producers in Brazil forecast record coffee harvest for 2016, up 13.6 to 20.1 percent from 2015
January 27, 2017 - Record Harvest on the Cards For Spain - wineinvestment.com
January 27, 2016 - Spain - The 2015 vintage in Spain is set to be a record year, both for quality and quantity
January 29, 2016 – Brazil 2016 Record Coffee Harvest will keep prices low
February 2, 2016 – Japan sees record high agricultural exports in 2015 for 3rd yr in row …
February 9, 2016 - California Farmers Reaping Record Sales In Spite Of Drought
SALINAS (CBS SF) — A new state report shows California farmers reaping record sales despite the drought.
The report released late last month shows California farmers raked in just over $53 billion in 2014. That’s the same year Governor Jerry Brown declared a drought emergency.
Experts say California farmers are weathering the drought because of high demand for crops like almonds and because growers are able to dig deeper, bigger wells to irrigate their fields.
February 12, 2016 – Pennsylvania - Pennsylvania’s 2015 Bear harvest was among highest on record
February 19, 2016 – Best French Wheat Crop In Five Years Puts A Record Harvest In Sight
About 94 per cent of the crop was in good or very good condition as of Monday, the best condition for mid-February since at least 2011 , according to FranceAgriMer. That compares with 98 per cent getting top marks in November and is up from 92 per cent a year earlier.
The quality of the crop is another indication that the country’s wheat harvest may climb to a record for the second year
February 20, 2016 – Farm incomes at a record high : Agriculture Canada
February 21, 2016 - Australia - Winemakers Record ‘Exceptional Season’
February 22, 2016 – Australia looks to agriculture to dig itself out of a mining slump.
February 24, 2016 - Delaware - Hunters harvested a record number of deer during the 2015 to 2016 season, topping the previous record set in 2004 to 2005
March 4, 2016 - Pakistan, China set for near-record wheat harvest in 2016
March 12, 2016 – On Africa’s agricultural boom
March 20, 2016 - Australia set for record mung bean harvest, biggest on record by about a third
March 23, 2016 - As Climate Change Alters Drought Patterns, Wine Growers Feel the Effects
April 3, 2016 – Africa – Sowing the Seeds of an Agriculture Boom
April 4, 2016 – Large Corn Number Could Affect Harvest Prices | WZDM
(uses the word ‘number’ so you don’t see ‘large corn harvest’ - ed)
April 5, 2016 – Tightfisted and Broke, Farmers Are Squeezing Monsanto
(April 7, 2016 – Monsanto Profits Drop 25% AGAIN as Farmers, Individuals go Organic …)
April 21, 2016 - Climate: Africa’s Human Existence Is at Severe Risk — Global Issues
(June 6, 2013 - North Africa grain harvest up , Morocco bringing in record crop , Algeria also up )
(February 8, 2016 – Increased and more frequent rainfall was reported across large parts of Angola and South Africa in January 2016)
April 26, 2016 – World Bank Raises 2016 Oil Price Forecast, Revises Down Agriculture …
(June 22, 2016 – Oil Prices Fall on Supply Overhang)
May 6, 2016 – Australia – Ramsey Predicts Farming ‘Boom’
May 7, 2016 – Zambia - THE 2015/2016 crop forecasting survey has revealed that the country will record an increased maize harvest.
May 16, 2016 – Feed & Grain News - Are We on The Brink of an Agricultural Boom ?
May 20, 2016 – Big Wheat Harvest Looming
May 23, 2016 – Zim farmers driving Zambia maize boom ? - New Zimbabwe.com
May 31, 2016 – Wheat farmers across Oklahoma are gearing up for a good harvest; Mother Nature has been good to most of them this year
June 2, 2016 – South Africa – SA Can Capitalize on an Agricultural Boom
June 9, 2016 – Urban agriculture may see boom in Fort Myers
June 20, 2016 – Large Harvest Creates Issues For Minnesota Farmers - Crops - News …
June 22, 2016 – Bayer, Dupont join ag-tech investment boom to ease grain pain
Latest companies to back tech startups as farm profits shrink
June 22, 2016 – Maple syrup output record high in 2016 | Food Business News
