Adapt date of sowing & variety precocity

Implementation

Short term

Sustainability components

  • GHG emissions
  • Air quality
  • Soil
  • Water
  • Biodiversity
  • Animal welfare
  • Economic
  • Social
  • Technical feasibility

Climate risk region

Southern
Southern

Weather event addressed

Drought
Spring, autumn
Very high temperatures / Heat wave
Spring

Farming system

CEREAL CROPS
Cereals

Description of the measure

If rainy autumns, advance date of sowing & long cyvle varieties. If dry autumns, sow a short cycle variety before spring

Comments on sustainability

Ensure yields and economic profits avoiding shrivelling (heat waves of late spring) and problems of low nascencia. Thought it may be necessary to invest in seeds and difficults to plan costs and sowns, share resources in cooperatives or farmers unions could be a solution at social level.