Winter grain crops in most of the European Union are in mediocre condition

Bulgaria

Published Mar 27, 2024

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The EU's crop monitoring service, MARS, has reported that winter grain crops in the European Union are facing challenges due to excessively wet conditions since autumn, impacting sowing, emergence, and development, with northern and eastern regions also suffering from severe frost damage. This has complicated replanting efforts, particularly in France, the EU's largest grain producer. Additionally, drought conditions in eastern Romania and Bulgaria are affecting winter rapeseed crops. Despite these challenges, MARS's initial yield forecasts for 2024 anticipate a slight increase in bread wheat and rapeseed yields, though winter barley yields are expected to decline.

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Winter grain crops across much of the European Union are in mediocre condition despite good spring weather, EU crop monitoring service MARS said on Monday (download report) “Since autumn, large parts of western, northern and eastern Europe have experienced excessively wet conditions, negatively impacting the sowing, emergence and development of winter crops,” MARS said in its monthly report. In northern and eastern Europe, severe frost caused further damage to crops. In the north, the hardest-hit fields are expected to be replanted with spring or summer crops. However, wet weather and waterlogged fields created difficult conditions for replanting summer crops, especially in France, the EU's largest grain producer, it said. Agricultural authority FranceAgriMer on Friday said bread wheat crop conditions remained at a four-year low last week, although traders said warm, sunny weather this week should help the crops after wet conditions since planting. In eastern Romania and eastern ...

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