After the elimination of state aid, starting January, farmers have also faced falling grain prices, with wheat currently trading 10% below the level of the first half of 2009, 106 euros (540 RON). At the same time, most farmers have given up investments as their capital drained or as they did not manage to reach an agreement with banks. Under the circumstances, they have received the only good news now, near harvesting time, when things have cleared up: yield is much better than in 2009. There are several voices even daring to announce "record high yield". "For autumn crops, we'll have record high harvests, but we have no merit in this. Autumn rains, the winter snow and the wet spring were the main factors that boosted yield. We'll have 4 tonnes/hectare in the case of rapeseed and at least 6 tonnes for wheat," said Mihai Anghel, owner of Cerealcom Dolj. The same volume was projected by Alfred C. Toepfer, the biggest agricultural trader domestically.
After the elimination of state aid, starting January, farmers have also faced falling grain prices, with wheat currently trading 10% below the level of the first half of 2009, 106 euros (540 RON). At the same time, most farmers have given up investments as their capital drained or as they did not manage to reach an agreement with banks. Under the circumstances, they have received the only good news now, near harvesting time, when things have cleared up: yield is much better than in 2009. There are several voices even daring to announce "record high yield". "For autumn crops, we'll have record high harvests, but we have no merit in this. Autumn rains, the winter snow and the wet spring were the main factors that boosted yield. We'll have 4 tonnes/hectare in the case of rapeseed and at least 6 tonnes for wheat," said Mihai Anghel, owner of Cerealcom Dolj. The same volume was projected by Alfred C. Toepfer, the big
