The cereal campaign in Toledo is "uneven" and "not due to meteorological conditions, but because of a rabbit plague"

Harvests advance in Castilla-La Mancha lands. In the latest AGROPOPULAR program (June 21), Jesús Maroto, a farmer in Villafranca de los Caballeros (Toledo), explained that "the campaign is very uneven and not due to weather, but because of the rabbit plague". Maroto detailed that the damages in plots are so disparate that there is barely any possible forecast: "There are plots where we have obtained oats 2,000/2,500 kilograms per hectare, and others have not even been harvested due to the damage". Prices "to cry about" and plots "destroyed" by the plague Added to this situation are the low cereal prices. At the ASAJA Toledo agricultural market, barley prices were set between 180 and 186 euros per ton, feed oats at 180 euros, and feed wheat at 212 euros. Maroto did not hide his discouragement: "I was going to say these are prices to laugh about, but they are more like prices to cry about". In his case, part of the cultivated oats are organic and ...