the drought is spreading to new territories

The drought could become even more pronounced during the week with high temperatures expected from Tuesday May 17. And the storms didn’t do anything about it. In some departments, it hasn’t rained for a month and a half, like in Vienne where the grain farmers are very worried, some had never seen that. This is the case of Sébastien Berger. His rain gauge remains desperately empty: “it displays zero every morning when I do my readings”he laments.

Sébastien Berger could lose 20% of his wheat harvest. In addition, the ears are much less numerous, and the less abundant harvests could push up prices. Other cultures are already lost. Sown a month ago, some sunflowers have still not come out of the ground. This season promises to be the most complicated for Sébastien Berger, who has been there for 22 years.