Agricultural and horticultural crops have always been at risk of damage from adverse weather conditions. Hail, storms, heavy rain, frost or drought can damage crops, potentially leading to total crop failure. Severe weather events are becoming increasingly frequent, more intense and affecting larger areas. Just a few minutes can be enough to destroy the crops across an entire region. Experience of damage shows that even for larger farms, whose land is spread across several municipalities, internal risk diversification no longer works.
Weather hazards can also have significant consequences for livestock farms, for example if the amount of forage is no longer sufficient. Additional purchases and the necessary transport costs, particularly for maize, place an extra strain on the budget. The same applies to substrate production for biogas plants.
