Let's not gamble with time, but rather adhere to the agrotechnical deadlines.

As always, I send the year as a farmer with mixed feelings – this is how our conversation with Radoslaw Hristov – chairman of the Thracian Union of Grain Producers – begins as he assesses the year 2025. Read more: 2025 for grain producers: A perfect storm of low yields and low prices From a purely professional agricultural perspective, 2025 again presented serious challenges. "The year was marked by extreme drought in the summer, and autumn turned out to be unusually rainy, which honestly surprised many colleagues," shares Hristov. According to him, the fact that at the end of November there were still farmers who had not finished the autumn sowing is a clear signal of how misleading climatic anomalies can be. "That is why I would give a simple but important recommendation – not to forget the agrotechnical deadlines taught by our fathers and grandfathers. We must adhere to them, more or less," he says. Although recent years have been marked by extremes – sometimes too dry and hot, ...