Rains lower EU corn, sunflower and soybean yield forecasts

Published 2024년 10월 29일

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The European Commission's October crop status report, as detailed in the MARS Bulletin, reveals the adverse effects of post-summer rains on the agricultural sector, with a particular focus on the negative impact on the ripening, harvesting, and sowing of crops across several EU countries. The report highlights a downturn in yield forecasts for key summer crops such as maize, sunflower, and soybean, attributed mainly to the challenging weather conditions in countries like Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Croatia, and Italy. These conditions have resulted in significant yield declines, especially in eastern European countries like Croatia, Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania, when compared to the 2019-23 average. Conversely, countries like Spain and France show varied results, with Spain emerging as the EU's leader in maize yield, despite a slight decrease from the previous season, and France experiencing a drop in yield for the current season but remaining above the five-year average. The report also addresses the challenges posed by excessively wet conditions for the harvesting of summer crops and the sowing of winter cereals, underscoring the quality concerns of grains and the delays in the sowing campaign for the upcoming season.

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Heavy post-summer rains negatively affected the ripening and harvesting of summer crops and have also hampered the sowing of winter cereals for the new season across the EU, according to the October edition of the European Commission's crop status report (MARS Bulletin). Summer crops Yield forecasts for maize, sunflower and soybean crops have been revised downwards at EU level, mainly due to worsening prospects for summer crops in Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Croatia and Italy. Yield forecasts for other summer crops were maintained or revised slightly upwards at EU level. In northern and central Italy, summer crops (particularly maize and soybean) were negatively affected by excessively wet conditions during ripening and harvesting, which reduced previously positive yield expectations at national level. In Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary and Croatia, heavy rains since mid-September contributed to worsening yield expectations (particularly for sunflower and maize), which were already low ...

Source: Agrodigital