PTrosie

Thanks for the advice Gray-Wolf. I'm actually not the agriculture specialist, my husband is (am helping him out with administration and bookkeeping), and mentioned to him what you told me. Problem remains that it just hasn't rained enough, no matter how you look at it. Since finances is what i know better, i did some research on that end, and made some interesting discoveries regarding weather insurance. I had no idea there was such a thing as weather derivatives, it's a kind of insurance, but not really (it rather is a financial product, value depending on temperature, rainfall and so on- or at least that's what i understand from it; wiki is better at explaining: http://en.wikipedia....ther_derivative ) Anyhow, i also bumped into this one website http://www.celsiuspro.com/ that lets you try this for free, which is nice because we're not sure yet to use this to balance our budget or go for more traditional insurance. What do you guys think? Anybody has done this before?

Hello there, Sorry, didn't check the comments for a few days...! Well, i'm currently living in the Netherlands, in a small town near Arnhem (a place you probably never heard of :-) and helping my dutch husband who's working hard to develop his small organic farm business (mostly veggies). You would think there's always plenty of water in the Netherlands, but definitely not this year... Ooff. We're now researching insurance possibilities to make sure he won't lose that much money again because of drought (nor because of too much rain, or frost... frustrating to be so dependent on what the weather does). If you have any advice for us, it would be very much appreciated. Well, to be continued... Cheers, PT By the way: rainfall here: 57mm since march 1st - the average is 150mm!!

And it keeps being WAY too dry here in Europe... Anybody else's garden / farm also suffering? How are you coping with the lack of rain? http://www.nytimes.c...20europe&st=cse