The meteorology of January and February has affected rainfed crops because it has not allowed the farmer to comply with his fertilization schedule, which includes the first nitrogen coverts in those months and which, on occasions, foresees single-application fertilizers.
The situation has particularly affected the latter, with some farmers who have tried to correct the deficiencies of the crop when the month of March has arrived. Many of them have chosen to replace that unique application with a cover, highlights the Fertifluid technician Vicente Belda.
Some farmers have even carried out two coverts within the month of March, to try to alleviate the delay in the subscriber. The farmer has largely compensated for the lack of nitrogen and the cereal has even managed to successfully overcome rust attacks.
Those weather changes and those low average temperatures for this time of year they have led to the plant having grown less, with a smaller size, especially in the case of barley. “But in general we can say that the field is good in terms of harvest, despite the fact that the saying has been fulfilled that when March May, May March.”
The spike has been done well and now the plant has to fill in the grain. The cereal needs that last push and the farmer is aware that market prices are positive, so he does not mind making the necessary outlays. “The cereal only needs to receive the solar radiation it so badly needs, without heat peaks and with some rain,” says Belda.
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