“The climate is the great unknown”: breeders facing the challenge of global warming

2023-08-11 17:51:31

One eye on the field, another on the agricultural weather. Temperatures, wind strength and direction, humidity. While the harvest is coming to an end in the north of France, it took place without a heat wave, and therefore with fewer incidents and fires than one might have feared. This did not prevent hundreds of hectares from going up in smoke, in Ile-de-France and in Oise, but, and this is terrible, it has now become almost normal.