Nogger's Blog

14/04/11 -- Here's a bit of interesting trivia for you, they plant more corn in Romania than any other European country. In fact this season they expect to plant more than 50% as much again as they will in France. It's a pity for them then that yields there aren't much more than a third of what they get in France, otherwise they'd have so much of the blinking stuff that they'd be thinking that they'd died and gone to corn heaven.

This year they are expected to plant 2.5 million hectares of corn, far more than France's 1.6 million, meaning that they'll account for a whopping 29% of the entire US corn area.

In contrary to western Europe, the weather in Romania has been quite different of late. Our man on the ground over there reports "wet and cold for the last 5 days. Around 25mm of rain in the last few days, temps at 11c whilst the UK etc are frying. Crops look OK, winter kill on ours very low at less than 2% and even then only a case of watching carefully as opposed to ploughing it up."

"Progress on seeding in the north is nonexistent but normal seeding starting date for sunflower in this area would be 15/4 so no dramas yet. Seeding in the south is moving albeit slowly."