Crop success survey

With the inexorable march of climate change affecting crops worldwide (see this by NASA), it is becoming ever more important to understand the impact of rising temperatures and changing climate on our own crop yields.

Climate change could manifest in a number of ways in Wales - this might include longer periods of hotter, drier days, but also more frequent periods of intense rainfall during the summer, and warmer and wetter winters. Together, these more extreme weather conditions may have an impact on crop yields through droughts, flash flooding, and also longer periods where warm and humid weather might combine to increase the likelihood of blight (take a look at the blight watch here).

With an aim to chart the effects of climate change on allotment yields, Cardiff council has developed a crop yield survey for plot holders to complete at the end of each year.

We’d encourage all of our plot holders to fill in the survey by 31st December to give the council the best chance possible of understanding how crops are being affecting by our changing climate.