JRC MARS Bulletin - Crop monitoring in Europe, May 2019
Vol. 27 No. 5
Improved yield outlook in southern Europe
Above-average rainfall in Italy, south-eastern Europe and south-eastern parts of the Iberian Peninsula instigated the replenishment of soil moisture reserves, which in several regions had been critically low, with substantial benefits for winter crops and the early development of spring- and summer crops.
Large parts of northern-central Europe experienced a marked rainfall deficit since mid-March. April was particularly dry in these regions. Winter crops are negatively affected in northern Poland, eastern and north-eastern Germany and north-western Czechia, especially those on light sandy soils. Emerging spring and summer crops were also impacted.
On balance, the improvements to the yield outlook for winter cereals in southern Europe were largely offset by reduced yield forecasts in northern regions, resulting in a slight upward revision at the EU level.
The distinctly colder-than-usual conditions that occurred in large parts of Europe in early May slowed down winter crop development, but frost damage to annual crops (such as flowering rapeseed stands) was limited to local occurrences.
BARUTH Bettina;
BASSU Simona;
BUSSAY Attila;
CEGLAR Andrej;
CERRANI Iacopo;
FUMAGALLI Davide;
LECERF Remi;
MANFRON Giacinto;
NISINI SCACCHIAFICHI Luigi;
PANARELLO Lorenzo;
SEGUINI Lorenzo;
TORETI Andrea;
VAN DEN BERG Maurits;
VAN DER VELDE Marijn;
WEISSTEINER Christof;
ZAJAC Zuzanna;
ZUCCHINI Antonio;
BIAVETTI Irene;
VAN DEN BERG Maurits;
BARUTH Bettina;
NIEMEYER Stefan;
2019-12-12
Publications Office of the European Union
JRC118062
2443-8278 (online),
2443-826X (print),
OP KJ-AW-19-005-EN-N (online),
OP KJ-AW-19-005-EN-C (print),
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC118062,
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