Mid-September 2013, we finished sowing a total of 1,500 HA rape.

A significant portion of rape fields are already germinated really nicely, but in Videle is so dry that germination is slow in coming. The other two sites are reasonable quantities of water available for rape.

Rape field in Mizil mid-September 2013:

It has in late summer gone well in preparing fields etc., and sowing of winter barley and wheat has just started 18 September.

For corn, the weather and conditions were “weird” in the late summer – as our managers express themselves. The very earliest planted corn is almost fully grown, while the slightly later sowed are still green for the most part, and has until recently been growing with respect to development of the cobs and filling of grains. Maize harvest therefore begins slowly in 1-2 weeks, and only really speed up in October.

L: farm manager Allan Burmeister and R: Chairman Claus Melgaard
with corn on the cob, both picked from the plant in front, Videle. 16. Sep. 2013

Cornfield in Mizil – first year this plot is used after many years of fallowing. 17 Sep 2013

18 September 2013

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