Spears Prepare for Wheat Harvest During Stretch of High Heat
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In addition to the consequences on the grapes, there is the problem of recruitment. - "20 years ago, we were harvesting in September": in Champagne and Ardèche, the harvest schedule upset by the heat wave (Pro life and employment).
It is never seen from the memory of a winemaker: under the effect of the record heats, the grapes matured at all speed. In the vineyards, it is necessary to remove the secateurs in emergency. Reportage in the Aude and the Pyrénées-Orientales.
Spears prepare for wheat harvest during stretch of high heat
DRAKE, N.D. – With widespread 90- to 100-degree temperatures during the last half of July, Scott Spear said his crops – spring wheat, canola, soybeans and corn – are showing signs of being stressed by the heat.
The harvest started on August 4, at Les Vignerons du Narbonnais, in Ouveillan, near Narbonne (Aude). The cellar starts with the muscats, with a good week ahead of its usual calendar. A precocity that illustrates very concretely the effects of climate change on the vineyard and obliges to adapt the organization of the work. This article Harvest: Climate change and viticulture, what consequences for the future ? appeared first on Tell them !.
In the front line of droughts and canicular temperatures that mark the summer, the French vineyard begins "historically early" harvests, all over France. A further challenge for wine growers already hit by an economic crisis linked to wine deconsummation.
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