Crop tour Week 38
Harvesters back into the country, but it's not ideal
Although there has been a lot of precipitation lately, growers from the Boerenbusiness Crop tour grubbing up again this week. Not because the conditions are optimal and the harvesting is going so well, but because rain is expected early next.
Dirk Binnema from Eenrum (Gr) had 70 millimeters of rainfall in a week and did not have to check the land today to see whether the harvesting or loading was going well. He wants to load his Crop Tour parcel of yellow onions at the end of this week. These have been in the swath since 9 September. The difference in yield within the plot is large, says Binnema. Due to the crust in the spring, many onion plants failed, so that the emergence and position of the crop was very diverse. "Pieces with 70 tons per hectare, but only 3 tons 30 meters away". The onions that were there had enough room to grow to a large size. The Gewastour plot is the last onion plot that Binnema has yet to drive in. Before loading onions, he wants to harvest his last 12 hectares of seed potatoes.
| location | Precipitation |
| Fijnaart | 60 |
| three ways | 70 |
| Onerum | 70 |
| Kortgene | 53 |
| Dronten | 50 |
| Kimswerd | 24 |
| moor | 44 |
| wezup | 32 |
Precipitation in millimeters of the past 7 days according to the weather poles of AgroExact
Coarse mat in Hellevoetsluis
Kees Trouw from Hellevoetsluis (ZH) will resume the harvesting on Wednesday 21 September. The last few days it rained 3 or 4 millimeters, so it never had time to sink. "The top is very greasy, but on Tuesday they will give off 20 millimeters. That's why we start anyway. We put a coarser mat on it just to be sure". The last two weeks, when it started to rain, it has rained 170 millimeters. There is still a lot to be harvested at Trouw in the area and some onion plots are still fixed.
Robin Winter
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