The wheat harvest in Romania next season may exceed 10 million tons

Argus Agritel’s agricultural analytics division predicts that Romania will harvest 10.09 to 11.15 mln tonnes of wheat in 2024/2025 season. The gross wheat harvest is expected to exceed 10 mln tonnes for the sixth time in the last eight years. At the same time, the expansion of planted areas will compensate for the less favorable yield forecast for the next season. Romanian farmers are planning to plant more winter crops, including wheat and barley, to avoid a repeat of previous years when drought in spring and summer negatively affected spring crops. Wheat planted area is forecast at 2.30 million hectares, which is significantly higher than the average for the previous five years of 2.18 million hectares. The yield, according to the first published forecast of Argus Agritel, will be 46.2 c/ha, which is approximately the same as in the current season. The forecast assumes that precipitation will be higher in winter and next year. The dry weather during the sowing period stopped the ...