Difficult autumn seeding in Bulgaria: Planters break, treatments are doubled, and crop rotations fail

The early-sprouting rapeseed in Plovdiv region dried up, grain producer Lyudmil Rabotov said The prolonged drought and forecasts that it will continue to be so in the coming days are exhausting the grain producers in Plovdiv and throughout the country. "The sowing of autumn crops is progressing very hard. The hard ground breaks and dampens the planters heavily. One disking of the soil is not enough, so we do two. After sowing, weeding is necessary in some places, which we otherwise do not do under optimal soil conditions. The bad thing is that the forecasts do not promise rainfall in the near future," commented Ludmil Rabotov, chairman of the Union of Grain Producers from Plovdiv. According to him, the worst part of this year's campaign is that the previously sown rapeseed, which, provoked by minimal moisture, sprouted, has already dried up. These are expenses that do not lead to income. And not only. "Next week I will make a final decision on what to do with the canola fields, ...