Due to the essential rainfall, the fodder mowing works in the eastern Latvia will affect its quality and the farm compete / day

The Chairman of the Board of the LOSP emphasized that the quality of feed will be worse as the collapses are delayed, as a result of which the hosts will need to add additional supplements to the feed, which will require additional funds, increasing the cost of feed.

He mentioned that the fields have been flooded in not all areas of the rainfall, but they are also too damp, which restricts their mowing.

Risa remains with the tractor on wet grasslands, which will not allow you to make second and third mows in these areas this year. While waiting for the lawns to dry, the quality of feed will be affected.

However, Gutmanis noted that in some places in the affected regions, the owners are already trying to obtain feed, including in higher places that are not so significantly flooded.

The Chairman of the Board of LOSP emphasized that floods and rains in Vidzeme, Latgale and middle of Latvia will affect almost any farm and that cereal growers will also have problems, as well as the poor situation at the moment. In Kurzeme, on the other hand, the owners have not affected the essential rains, so the situation will not be so bad.

LETA also informed LETA that wet and cool weather in the spring and early summer had influenced the collection of feed. Most of the Latvian farms still have not yet made the first grass mow for feed preparation, which usually happens in May at the end of May, as a result of which the yield could be good this year, but the quality of feed could deteriorate.

According to farms representing the « Farmers’ Saeima », the collection of fodder from wet fields with heavy machinery can adversely affect lawns for future meadows, which will result in uneven grassland mowers.

The first grass mow has been delayed by at least three weeks. There are some small farms that have succeeded in the first mow, but large farms have still not done so and the future summer weather will be important to the preparation of the feed, according to the Society, adding that if the weather is favorable, the farms may be able to produce their own and will not need to invest additional funds.

However, fodder harvesting and production will continue throughout the summer, as well as in the autumn, and it will only be possible to evaluate the volumes and quality of the crops later.

Mārtiņš Valko, the head of JSC « Pampāļi » and the board member of the « Farmers’ Saeima » association, points out that the height of the lawn is currently 80 centimeters, but usually the first mow is made at a height of 40 centimeters. Therefore, the yield of the first mow will be twice as high as last year, but the quality of feed could be reduced, as the lawn may not be sufficiently wrapped and the forage should not have a high water content.

However, Juris Lazdiņš, Chairman of the Board of the Society, emphasized that last year the grassland and corn harvest used in feed was very good, so most farms have enough feed stocks, which will be used this year and the feed for owners is unlikely to be short.

The LOSP is a association that brings together more than 50 nationwide manufacturers and processors’ non -governmental organizations that cover the entire territory of Latvia and all production sectors. The organization formulates the views of united farmers for the protection of the interests of producers and further negotiations with public administration institutions, as well as other cooperation partners.

The Farmers ‘Saeima is a farmers’ organization founded in 1999. The members of the Society are 800 small and large farms from all over Latvia. Members in total manage more than 500,000 hectares of agricultural land and provide more than 4,000 employees on farms.