Jim McCarthy update from Romania
On this week’s Tillage Edge podcast, Irishman Jim McCarthy, who manages a large tract of land in northern Romania, talks to Michael Hennessy about spring plantings, costs of inputs, machinery capacity and why many countries have banned the imports of Ukrainian grain.
Jim says that due to recent rainfall, the farm is behind in the planting of 12,000 hectares of spring crops, though the recent wet weather has recharged soil moisture reserves which will help to drive yields this year.
Jim explains how he is trying to preserve crop financial margins by delaying fertiliser purchases as long as he…
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