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written by Heinz-Josef Dauck, committee member

 

 

Full speed backwards into the 18th Century - 6 month before integration into EU

 

First months in the EU

Good year for crop production in the most areas of Poland.


Weather

 

Mild winter after average fall. In September and October, we got 50mm Rain each, which filled up our very dry soils. Later in fall and winter relatively dry.

 

Late vegetation start in spring (~14 days)

 

Cold May and July, relatively dry. Time delay at Harvest;
Rape ~6-8 days
Wheat ~4 days
Corn ~8 days

 

Crops

 

Wheat

 

In the area of Lower Silesia high to very high yields. Only in some areas low yield after sugar beets because of leak of water. In extreme, the wheat after corn yielded 2 tons/hectare higher, because the sugar beets took out the rain from 9.and 10.2003!!

During wheat harvest, one off our two combines burned down after a bearing failure. The combine, 2 hectare burning wheat and 20 hectare burning stubble kept 45 Fire fighters busy. There are days less perfect than others. Wheat Quality good, only in the north of Poland sometimes feed quality after rain and harvest delay.

 

Corn

 

Good seeding conditions. Cold stress in May. In July during flowering to dry.

This year also the Corn borer, which we detect with pheromones, had a delay of 12 days. Aerial spraying application with plane and ultra low volume application (10L/hectare) was high effective. Yields in my farm around 8% lower than average. In south- eastern Poland very high yield, in the Posen area and north bad crop because of dry spring and/or low temp. High energy costs effect economics for this crop.

 

	HJ Dauck	Saat 22.4.04			Harvest 25.10.04
	Nord	Saat- stärke
		Seed rate x 1000 /ha	Höhe Kolben	Höhe Mais cm	Feuchte korrigiert	Ertrag naß	Yield 14%		FAO Nr.
1	PR37D25	70	165	310	35,00%	12.653	9.563	98%	>350
2	PR38H67	70	120	276	37,90%	13.692	9.887	102%	>290
3	PR38F70 Benicia	70	136	290	35,60%	11.921	8.927	92%	290
4	PR38R92	70	118	262	37,20%	13.512	9.867	102%	>290
5	PR38H20	70	112	255	37,40%	13.556	9.867	102%	>290
6	PR39D81	80	112	246	33,00%	13.145	10.241	105%	280
7	PR39T84	80	132	282	32,50%	13.721	10.770	111%	260
8	Valuta	80	125	265	31,60%	12.387	9.852	101%	270
9	PR39R86	80	126	264	32,60%	13.070	10.243	105%	260
10	Clarica	80	125	270	33,20%	12.863	9.991	103%	280
11	PR39A37	80	137	290	32,70%	13.709	10.728	110%	250
12	PR39H32	80	96	253	31,20%	13.020	10.416	107%	240
13	PR39G12	80			29,80%	12.310	10.049	103%	230
14	Gazelle	80			31,20%	10.683	8.546	88%	220 wild boar damage
15	Oldham	80			32,20%	11.286	8.898	92%	220 wild boar damage
16	Delitop	80			31,60%	12.399	9.862	101%	240
17	Moncada	80			32,60%	10.687	Data error	XXX	250
18	Aerobase	80			32,80%	12.652	9.886	102%	240
19	Eurostar	80			33,30%	12.076	9.366	96%	240
20	DK312	80			33,90%	12.485	9.596	99%	280
21	Lexxor	80			35,00%	12.695	9.595	99%	280
22	LG3226	80			32,80%	11.749	9.180	94%	250
23	Anjou258	80			33,90%	12.465	9.581	99%	260
24	Anjou238	80			32,20%	11.652	9.186	95%	230
25	Anjou248	80			31,90%	11.952	9.464	97%	230
26	Fuxxol	80			31,00%	11.672	9.364	96%	220
	Süd					average	9.717

Sugar beets

Good growing conditions, during summer and fall to dry. Harvest conditions good+ dry.Expected yield average, sugar yield/hectare average.

Rapeseed

Good seeding conditions, good growing conditions.Yields very high.

New Crops for 2005

Winter Rape and Winter wheat in average condition.

Politics

See 2003 report. In October was the start for a new Ag-Investment Program with subsidy from EU. The Program was build for the years 2004 to 2006. The Program has three important limits. For an investment on the farm the subsidy can be up to 50%. One Farm can get at least ~70.000,-€ until the end of the program in 2006.

Budget for this program allows at least ~8500 farms at maximum subsidy to take place.

Corruption

Still popular, see 2003 report