This year, the cereal harvests in Côte-d’Or were not particularly brilliant, and for good reason: the bad weather of this summer and the rains of July, more particularly, damaged grain crops.
“Everything had started so well”
However, for Didier Lenoir, president of Dijon Céréales, everything had started well. “When we walked the fields in the spring we were really optimistic, we were hoping for a great harvest this year.“he explains.
But he who is disappointed, especially for his own harvest, wants to put it into perspective. “We are not doing any worse than last year, which was nevertheless a very bad year, and then in Côte-d’Or, we are doing much better than elsewhere“he concludes. In the end, almost 7 tonnes per farm are collected this year throughout the department. “Fortunately“says Philippe Dubief, president of Passion Céréales.
Because yes, it is not so much the quantity that fishes, but rather the quality. “The grains of wheat were bathed in water, which spoiled it. The grains are lighter, more scalded“He confides. Nevertheless, nearly 80% of the harvest is still correct.
Wheat harvests in jeopardy
Usually, the production of wheat and its yield in Côte-d’Or is rather homogeneous. But this year, it is very heterogeneous according to Philippe Dubief. “A heterogeneity, because the Dijon region is less impacted unlike the Saône valley, where the floods were stronghe said.
Weather hazards that he explains by climate change. “I have thirty years of harvest under my belt, and I have never, but never seen it. My parents or my grandparents suffered small catastrophes every ten years, approximately, but there, for ten years, it is almost every year“he continues.
But despite all this, wheat prices should remain stable, and Passion Céréales and Dijon Céréales note a positive point in all of this: crops sown in the spring, such as corn or soybeans, are crops that need water. They then hope to make up for it with their harvests.
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