How to get undrilled fields working after a wet winter

摘要

Time has nearly run out for drilling winter wheat crops, leaving farmers to decide which spring crop to grow or even whether to fallow areas that remain undrilled after the wettest winter in living memory.The prolonged wet weather has resulted in only about 60% of the planned winter wheat area being drilled. In some cases, growers have virtually no winter crops in the ground.In the coming days, growers will be deciding on how to salvage their season, as they try to limit the damage to their rotations and cash flows. Here we look at some of the options.