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The climate also has concrete consequences on our food. As a result, the regulations for certain products PDO and labels Rouges will thus be relaxed because breeders are no longer able to comply with the specifications due to repeated droughts and heat waves.
Claudius Bocherproducer of Rigotte de Condrieuis relieved. He has just obtained an authorization to produce his cheese PDO after a summer of drought. “July August, [les vaches] came out, but they weren’t grazing at all. (…) They ate the stock of hay we had made”he says. out usuallythese beasts should only eat 20% food from outside the area PDO. This will now be 40%.
Like the Rigotte of Condrieuother cheeses with strict specifications, have obtained an exemption for the winter. At total 24 PDO will be able to temporarily change their recipe. Jean-Francois brunellishepherd and master cheese maker, did not wait for this relaxation. “I realized that there was another variety of seed that made good hay, that resisted the heat”he says.