In agriculture, good weather is weather that does not last. This popular saying is currently true, from north to south of the France, but in diametrically opposite ways. From the Mediterranean rim to the Pyrénées-Orientales, severe water restrictions were pronounced even before the beginning of summer. They concern in particular the irrigation of tree plantations, market gardening and arable crops. A situation so desperate that some, as in Draguignan (Var), invoke the sky and organize processions to rain. Further north, however, farmers would like the rain to stop falling so that they can work properly. "Since March, we have been watching the weather windows without rain. We work intermittently. The fields are now soggy, and we can not go, regrets Vincent Guyot, cereal farmer in the Hauts-de-France. However, they should be treated, because the current humidity favors diseases, such as yellow rust in wheat or...
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