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The never-ending rains have flooded fields and meadows – particularly in Donaumos, where groundwater levels are a perennial issue. The harvest was stopped in Gietlhausen.
Claudia Stegman and Winfred Ren
it is raining. For days, for weeks. And there is no end in sight. Summer just doesn’t want to come. Wet weather, which is too cold for the time of year, not only affects sun babies, but also causes real concern for farmers and gardeners. Soils soaked in water for a long time can no longer absorb rain. Normally now would be the time to harvest winter barley. But this is out of the question at the moment, as the fields are flooded with water everywhere. “I have been a farmer for 42 years. But I have never seen anything like this,” says Gerhard Adler of Untermaxfeld.
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