Crop yield forecasts in Europe are revised downwards

Yield forecasts for almost all crops were revised downwards, but remain close to the five-year average at EU level, according to the European Commission's July crop status report (Bulletin MARS). The most notable downward revisions were recorded for sunflower, grain corn and peas, while forecasts for spring barley and durum wheat were revised slightly upwards. The main reasons for the lower yield expectations are hot and dry conditions in south-eastern Europe, while large areas of the west continued to experience unfavorable wet conditions. South-central and southeastern Europe In large areas of central-southern and southeastern Europe, the months of June and July were exceptionally hot, with several days with maximum temperatures above 35 °C, which negatively affected summer crops around flowering. . In particular, in eastern Hungary, eastern Romania, Bulgaria and Greece, high temperatures combined with a persistent rainfall deficit, compounding these negative effects. Winter and ...