Autumn wheat in Germany rots in flooded fields

Irrigation rains are causing huge damage to German winter wheat producers, and local vegetable growers have also suffered as they cannot harvest part of the potato and beet crops in the swampy fields, the electronic publication AgrarHeute reported. "Many of the fields look like lakes right now. Although the rains subside and it gets colder, the fields remain flooded and the autumn wheat rots. Farmers estimate the damage at around 300-400 euros per hectare, if recultivation is required," the publication commented. It should also be noted that due to the extremely wet autumn, some farmers did not manage to sow autumn crops at all, as the machines could not enter the fields. Sowing spring wheat, oats or corn remains an option, but yields from spring ...