A previous blog entry discussed the severe drought in the Pampas. In an outreach article recently published in the AACREA Magazine (issue 342, April 2009), project investigators Maru Skansi, Federico Bert, and Fernando Ruiz Toranzo discuss the climate conditions prevailing during the winter cropping season of 2008/09. Poor conditions (initially dry soils, insufficient rainfall during crop growth, higher than average temperatures and late frosts) resulted in wheat yields that in many cases fell within 30-70% of average.
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