Precipitation in the EU slowed down the pace of harvesting winter crops and worsened the quality of grain

According to MARS monitoring, heavy rainfall in Northwest, Central and Northern Europe has slowed winter crop harvesting and is likely to negatively affect grain yields and quality, especially in Northwest France, large parts of Germany and countries Benelux. This is reported by "Grain On-Line". Heavy hailstorms also damaged crops in northern Italy, Croatia and Slovenia, according to an August report. However, in Romania, Poland, Bulgaria and the Czech Republic, harvest prospects have deteriorated due to dry and too hot weather conditions. At the same time, experts have so far limited themselves to minor adjustments to the forecast for winter crop yields in the EU in 2023/24 MY. At the same time, the forecast for sunflower yields was revised upwards, mainly due to better-than-expected weather conditions in Spain and France, which offset worsening yields in Bulgaria. In particular, the expected average yield of soft ...