Mr. Botticello estimated his overall crop loss this year at about 45percentt.
Total crop loss in Iowa — including hay and pasture — is most likely nearing $3 billion.
That would cause a great deal of heartache and significant crop loss.
The yellow nut sedge (Cyperus esculentus), also a weed, is a serious threat in cooler climates, causing considerable crop loss.
The Hudson Valley region of New York, where the disease has jumped from tomatoes to potatoes and is wreaking havoc in both, has already experienced widespread crop loss.
Some of the money is for crop loss from hail and other storms that hit farmers hard, particularly in New York.
This means bankruptcy for beekeepers and crop loss for farmers, like the Maine blueberry grower who pays beekeepers $900,000 annually to pollinate his berries.
Today's lush, high-yielding wheat fields on vast irrigated tracts are ideal environments for the fungus to multiply, so the potential for crop loss is greater than ever.
In severe epidemics, crop loss may be as high as 75 percent, and millions of hectares of rice are infected annually.
In addition to these immediate dangers, volcanic activity produces secondary effects such as property damage, crop loss, and perhaps changes to weather and climate.
Through sun and heat: In the summer it can be 105 degrees in Chico, so if you don't water you're going to see a substantial crop loss.
