The highest sunflower yield in the EU is expected in Hungary

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Hungary

Published Sep 23, 2020

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Agricultural production, and thus world market prices, is fundamentally affected by the weather worldwide. The following is a summary of the main weather processes in major European production areas and their impact on agriculture. There is a lack of rainfall in both the West and the East in Europe, so yield estimates for summer field crops have been further revised downwards.

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According to the latest satellite measurements, natural and cultivated plants are not in good condition in France or the Black Sea region either. The distribution of the precipitation in August was very uneven, we could experience significant surpluses and large deficits compared to the long-term average - we read on met.hu. Between 1 August and 5 September, much of Europe was affected by unfavorable agricultural weather: droughts in the Black Sea region and lack of rainfall in the west. However, the excess rainfall in the middle band of the continent has a very positive effect on the biting plants. Temperatures in most parts of the continent were slightly above average (0.5 to 2.0 degrees Celsius), with greater variations (2 to 4 degrees Celsius) in northern France, the Benelux states, and Germany. Below average temperatures occurred in the European territory of Russia. Higher-than-average rainy weather characterized the north-western part of the Pyrenees and the British Isles, ...

Source: Magro