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Rains heralding the end of the devastating La Niña drought may come too late to prevent Argentina's soybean crop from withering.

A major Brazilian potash producer recently warned that high prices for this variety of fertilizer will likely persist as the world scrambles to ramp up production amid concerns over food [...]

Of january in california, many farmers in the middle sohern pa in the middle of planting. so theyre preparing acreage for seeding. many of them have already started seeding, things like let lettuce and spinach, onion, peas all being planted. when we get this much flooding it washes a lot of that flooding and seeding. it will minimize the ability to produce the crops on the schedule they planned. further south many crops are harvested year round like strawberries, broccoli, asparagus. much of tha...

With the minimum temperature at minus 4.5 degrees Celsius on Tuesday, the mercury dropped below the freezing point for the fourth consecutive day in the Sikar district of Rajasthan.

What do farmers do here? how do you bounce back after a flood disaster on the heels of three years of mega drought? >> right. when we think of a lot of crops like soy beans and corn, most of those acres are insured. when theres a disaster, farmers have a fall back for insurance. when we think of specialty crops, fruits and vegetables, most of that acreage is uninsured. theres not a good data pricing set for farmers and insurance companies to provide insurance. so much of those farmers dont have ...

The West Coast might be getting drenched in rain right now, but the western farm belt – this includes states like Nebraska, Kansas, and Texas – is still starving for moisture. Many corn fields in [...]

Are no good answers to this. it is everywhere in this neighborhood in philadelphia. >> bill: we saw your live shot in the park waking up on another morning. it was some site to see. good to have you in philly. see which way it goes. thank you, jeff. >> dana: farmers in yuma, arizona say the migrants coming across the border is hurting their crops. they turn out 9 billion service of leafy greens per year. alex mueller is the president of a company in yuma. thank you, alex, thank you for being her...

>> harris: we are at a point where food is so high in this country. anything that would take a punch at the nation supply of anything we need is cruel. >> it is a gut punch to the farmers once again. we are dealing with throughout in arizona, so many farmers that are struggling. if you are not dealing with drought, they are dealing with flooded outcrops. in california with all the rain thats come in, they are not able to cede a lot of crops. put that against a border farmer having to put money i...

Seeing bigger and bigger challenges with the colorado river water supply, and that is going to have an impact. it means new subdivisions, requiring developers to go out and find other water supplies. >> and in terms of that water supply, i was struck by the number from the state of arizona that 72% of the states water is for agriculture. so, lucy, farms getting caught in this as well. how much is that discussion part of a plan moving forward? >> look, the farms are also very much affected, and d...

Public is safe and healthy and edible. and we keep track of people who enter the field and animals intrusions and things like that. when people -- we have certain branches that are on the border and people are crossing through the branches, we have to flag those areas off and we have to disk them under just because of the risk of food-born illness. >> dana: you have to destroy those crops. >> yes. >> dana: are there a lot of farmers that are maybe reluctant to talk about this? >> yeah. this is o...