Spain: Drought and low prices affect the grain harvest

We talk about the cereal campaign and how the different agricultural organizations in Spain expect a good winter cereal harvest, exceeding the volume of the previous campaign. By Bárbara Aguayo Martínez, agri-food journalist The Spanish countryside faces the new cereal campaign with better prospects than in 2023. Thus, Spain will produce 17.9 million tons of winter cereals, such as wheat, barley and oats, in the new 2024-2025 campaign, which is 123.29% more than the previous season, according to the Agro-Food Cooperatives of Spain. However, ASAJA points out that the total harvest will amount to 15.7 million tons, a figure slightly lower than that proposed by Cooperatives. Despite the general improvement in production, the drought has had a considerable impact in several producing regions. Catalonia, some areas of Aragon, the province of Albacete and the southeast of the peninsula have been the most affected areas, with a significant decrease in harvests. Farmers face a complicated ...