Some features in the Finnish climate affecting cereal harvesting

Authors

• Yrjö Pessi Society of Peat Cultivation, Experimental Station Leteensuo

DOI: https://doi.org/10.23986/afsci.71629

Abstract

On the basis of the present results the inference can be drawn that in Finland weather-induced prerequisites for a lowering of the moisture content of cereals to the desirable level for combine harvesting are the better the earlier the cereals ripen. Weather conditions in which sprouting in the ear is possible occur most commonly during August and September. They are commonest in Helsinki during the period between August 20th and September 10th, although they are not decisively less prevalent at any other time during these months. In more northerly locations weather conditions conducive to sprouting in the ear are rare in the second half of September.