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Rain, rain, rain: farmers worried

2023-05-12T09:16:42.481Z

Highlights: Up to 45 litres of rain per square metre in 24 hours were measured in the district of Starnberg this week. On 20 of the past 30 days, it has rained more or less heavily in the county, and there seems to be no end in sight. At least until next Thursday it will continue to rain, although not continuously. In general, more precipitation has fallen so far this year than in the previous year - at the Rothenfeld measuring station about 267 litres this year, compared to 171 litres last year.



Permanent condition under the umbrella: Sabina (18, left) and Maria (18) were not deterred by the bad weather and came from Gauting for a walk to Lake Starnberg. The rain will probably continue. © Dagmar Rutt

Up to 45 litres of rain per square metre in 24 hours were measured in the district of Starnberg this week, and it continues to rain. The farmers are worried about this.

County – On 20 of the past 30 days, it has rained more or less heavily in the county, and there seems to be no end in sight. At least until next Thursday it will continue to rain, although not continuously. On Wednesday and Thursday, however, it poured out of buckets in places, in Gilching and near Starnberg, 45 liters of precipitation per square meter were measured in 24 hours. In general, more precipitation has fallen so far this year than in the previous year - at the Rothenfeld measuring station about 267 litres this year, compared to 171 litres in the previous year. The water levels are rising, some more strongly, but the authorities are not currently assuming a flood situation. But the rain annoys many.

On the other hand, farmers are worried about the heavy rain, according to district chairman Georg Holzer. "The rain in April was good for the water balance in the soil," he says. However, Holzer, the largest dairy farmer in the district with 530 cattle in Diemendorf, longs for four or five dry days in a row. "There's nothing we can do right now – neither sow fodder corn nor harvest grass." Arable farms that grow potatoes, soybeans or grain maize would need a dry seedbed. And if you haven't sown yet, you'll probably have a problem later. Holzer: "In the end, the sunny days for maturation could be missing. It should be a wonderful autumn."

What also occupies the farmer: his 200 young cattle on the pasture. "They're destroying everything, it's pure disaster." However, the animals would have to get out of the barn to train for the alpine summer in Austria. They need "stamina" and have to get away from concentrated feed. Holzer is preparing to roll the currently soaked meadows later. Fortunately, grassland recovers relatively well on its own. (ike/gma)

Source: merkur

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