# Chamber of Agriculture

Type: Company

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## Timeline

- **2026-09-21**: Sorghum harvest season begins — Reporting publishes as French growers enter the September–November sorghum harvest window, with some ears yellowed by the dry summer.
- **2026-06**: Heatwaves and drought strike French agriculture — Summer heatwaves and three completely dry months damage cereal fields, leaving nearly half of the French maize harvest unusable.
- **2024**: France becomes Europe's top sorghum producer — France cultivates roughly 103,000 hectares of sorghum, the most in Europe, according to the Chamber of Agriculture.
- **2016**: Farmer begins climate adaptation research — Eudes Coutté settles on his farm and starts researching climate-resilient plants, concluding a 42-year career would require change and arriving at African sorghum.

## Recent coverage (1 stories)

### Sorghum hits 103,000 ha in France as maize losses near 50%
2026-09-25 02:27:08 · Sentiment: Neutral · Impact: 5/10 · Sources: 2

France's cereal belt is pivoting to sorghum as heat and drought devastate maize, with nearly half of the 2026 harvest unusable. The sub-Saharan crop now covers 103,000 hectares, making France Europe's top producer, but economic viability still lags its agronomic promise.
Full story: https://getclimatebrief.com/story/french-farmers-sorghum-climate-adaptation

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