Wet weeks also threaten to cause potato harvests to fail in the Netherlands

"Many colleagues still have a lot of money left in the ground. They have incurred all the costs, but see no returns. That creates a large financial hole," Hendrik Jan ten Cate tells Omroep Zeeland. "Harvesting also leaves havoc on the land: that gives a bad start for the next growing season." Due to the heavy rainfall in recent weeks, the potato harvest is in danger of failing. This leads to headaches for Zeeland's arable farmers. Read more here. "In just a few months, 600 millimeters of rain has fallen here. I have never experienced that in more than ten years. It rained here almost every day. I cannot harvest some of the potatoes because of the mud with agricultural machines. They drown and rot on the land," ...