EU: Yield forecasts for sugar beet and potato improve, while those for corn and sunflowers deteriorate

Published Sep 24, 2024

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The European Commission's crop status report reveals a mixed picture for EU summer crop yields. While yields of sugar beet and potato are expected to improve, yields of maize and sunflower are projected to decrease due to high temperatures and precipitation deficits in central-southern and eastern Europe, and dry conditions in northern Europe. The impacts of severe storms and flooding in central Europe are still difficult to quantify.

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Yield prospects for summer crops have worsened in Central and Eastern Europe, while yield expectations have improved in western regions, according to the European Commission's crop status report (MARS Bulletin). As can be seen from the attached table, average EU yield forecasts have improved for sugar beet and potato. For sugar beet, yields are estimated at 74.7 t/ha compared with 73.4 t/ha in the August bulletin and 2% higher than the average for the last five years. For potatoes, yields are forecast at 35.8 t/ha compared with 35.1 t/ha in August. Current estimates are 1% higher than the average for the last 5 years. On the other hand, the fate of maize and sunflower has been different. The expected yield for maize grain is 6.84 t/ha compared to more than 7,000 kg expected in August. The forecasts are 7% lower than the five-year average. For sunflower, the yield is estimated at 1.98 t/ha compared to 2.04 t/ha in August, which is 8% lower than the five-year average. Very high ...

Source: Agrodigital