MARS lowers European beet and corn yield estimates this season

According to the October issue of the JRC's MARS Bulletin, Europe Crop Tracking, which was published recently, the hot and dry summer followed by a period of abundant, but sometimes excessive rainfall from late September, hampered fieldwork in much of Europe. These wet conditions in late September and October led to delays in the harvesting of summer crops, as well as in planting activities in western and southwestern France, Benelux, southern Poland, eastern Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania , Bulgaria and Greece. For winter rape, the planting window has come to an end. In the case of winter cereals, it is still possible to complete the sowing campaign on time in the coming weeks. At EU level, the yield forecasts for all summer crops were revised downwards, mainly on the basis of a new analysis of the data from the beginning of the season. Thus, in the case of corn, there has been a significant decrease since the previous bulletin of 5.2% as yields have fallen from the 7,830 ...