It was also a bad year for insects, with knock-on impacts for fruit and crops which they pollinate.
Here are a few other pictures and crops that Lipinski captured that day.
Damage is mostly in the area of housing, infrastructure and crops plantations, but no assessment of those damages yet.
At the time when Zigta began to build checkdams, wealth was measured not in land and crops, but in livestock.
There is now a real concern that the flood has caused serious pollution to land, animals and crops near Aberystwyth.
He said sheep could cope in temperatures as low as -20C (-4F), and crops were protected from frost by the snow.
"To make a profit in the business, you have to have classes and crops all the time to pay your overhead, " she says.
Graham Nichols, a farmer in Kingscote, near Tetbury, said he had power tools stolen and crops damaged when a neighbour's tractor was taken.
In Texas, where there are an estimated 2.6 million pigs, the animals have moved from destroying pastures and crops to tearing up suburban gardens.
"We've seen a decline in metal thefts, but hare coursing and trespassing on people's fields and crops is still a major problem, " he said.
We need seeds and crops that can better withstand drought, combat new pests and weeds, and perhaps adjust to changes in climate and growing seasons.
It can adversely affect forests and crops, and is also linked with damage to plankton, the microscopic creatures at the bottom of the marine food chain.
The medieval hunter owns a spear and meat while the farmer owns a field and crops or even one farmer owns corn while another owns peas.
Early indications are that some people prefer to keep their personal goings-on (and perhaps affinity for FarmVille critters and crops) safely separated from their existing and potential employers, so LinkedIn seems to have some breathing room.
But PacBio still represents an interesting approach that will have immediate utility for some things, like sequencing germs and crops and new types of organisms, and its technology has the potential to get much, much faster.
The cool, wet spring in the Midwest delayed planting of the corn and soybean crops and that means pollination of these two crops is happening later in the summer.
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Commodity prices have fallen: oil is down nearly 60% from its peak and many crops and metals have done worse.
In industrialised nations, such as the US and in Europe, many farms employ the services of commercial hives to pollinate fruit trees and food crops, and ensure they harvest adequate yields.
To investigate, scientists looked at two common pesticides: neonicotinoids, which are used to control pests on oil seed rape and other crops, and a group of organophosphate chemicals called coumaphos, which are used to kill the Varroa mite, a parasite that attacks the honey bee.
High-tech advances in improving the resilience, yield and herbicide resistance of mainstay crops have generated significant results along with a set of widely-licensed gene patents that are used in most soybean and corn crops grown in the U.S. today.
As Turner Investments points out, in an era when a farmer can take his iPhone into the fields and use the data it generates to customize and modify his decisions to fertilize a particular corner of a specific field, and produce crops more efficiently and profitably, the companies that enable him to do so are likely to remain out-performers.
To bring soybeans and other crops, including corn and such, for ethanol are great options for national security, but we also need fuel economy.
His social gaming company Zynga produces the interactive game, played via Facebook, that sees players fertilize and harvest digital crops and tend to virtual livestock.
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When drought caused fires in the Amazon jungle, and then devastated crops and cattle in the poor north-east, Mr Cardoso and his team seemed slow to react.
Having spent years increasing production and acreage, Embrapa is now turning to ways of increasing the intensity of land use and of rotating crops and livestock so as to feed more people without cutting down the forest.
As for a funeral, it was hot weather and the crops were in the ground and the roads were dry and the fair was over.
Likewise, although Dow Chemical and DuPont have strong agriculture divisions, companies specializing in agrochemicals and biotech crops increasingly stand alone: look at Monsanto and Syngenta , both of which were spun off from pharmaceuticals firms.
The Colombian Coffee Federation said its country's high-end growers have begun planting corn and other crops as a way of diversifying incomes, and that most have been reinvesting by replacing old coffee plants with newer, more productive ones.
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