MARS: but the problem remains yet a few Dewinterizing damage - The agro-meteorological Institute of the Commission (MARS) represents the results of evaluating climate data in the latest monthly report since beg. Dec.-2016 to mid Jan 2017 for the European area dar. The training of winter hardiness for cereal crops has further progressed, but with different levels of intensity. The plants convert starch into glucose with the result that the freezing temperature of the cell juice is reduced significantly. Little or even no protection has been established in the Western and southern regions of the EU. Advanced winter hardiness is, however, mostly in the eastern EU Member States. Protection against Dewinterizing depends however at very low temperatures the amount of protective snow cover . More protracted negative temperatures below 10 degrees it is required in addition one sufficient snow depth, to shield the plants from freezing. To the calculations of the Institute are the Dewinterizing damage so far to assess comparatively low. In the West and South there are no issues. The cold wave in South-East Europe with up to temperatures of-20 degrees allow only Auswinterungen in the regions expect their snow came, not about 5 cm. It is expected mainly in Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, Czech Republic, and parts of Poland . In some parts of southern Germany are expected to each Dewinterizing damage. Large Auswinterungen one notes, however, in the South of Russia and parts of the Ukraine , because there at low temperatures by an average of 20 degrees to non-existing snow cover have produced significant frostbite. From Russia, numbers of approximately ½ million be ha or 3% to 5%, the new must be ordered in the spring. However is the winter is still not at the end. The critical time of Dewinterizing damage is yet in the month Feb. until the beginning of March before . The plant roots is demolished lead sources to shrinkage of the floor, where in particular the transition from warm daytime temperatures due to stronger sunlight and cold temperatures, and in this way the plants die down.
