Europe adjusts downwards the forecast for yields of 3 crops

Maize, sunflower and soybean yields will be worse after production forecasts in Europe were revised downwards due to a worsening outlook for summer crops in Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Croatia and Italy, according to the October edition of the JRC MARS Bulletin - Monitoring Crops in Europe. Yield forecasts for other summer crops were maintained or revised slightly upwards at the EU level, the analysis showed. The intense rainfall has had a negative impact on the ripening and harvesting of summer crops, as well as on the sowing of winter cereals for the new season. In northern and central Italy, summer crops (especially grain maize and soybeans) were adversely affected by excessively wet conditions during ripening and harvest, thus reducing previously positive national yield expectations. In Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary and Croatia, intense rains in mid-September contributed to worsening yield expectations (especially for sunflowers and grain maize), which were already low ...