Yield forecasts for winter crops further reduced
According to this June issue of the crop monitoring Bulletin for Europe, the yield forecasts for EU winter crops, (mainly wheat, barley and rapeseed) were revised downwards by around 2% compared to May, mainly because of sharp downward revisions for France, Romania and the Benelux countries. The yield outlook for winter crops is now clearly below the 5-year average.
A main reason for the poor outlook for winter cereals is a distinct rain deficit that persisted in much of north-western Europe as well as in Hungary and eastern Romania. Recent rains in several of the regions affected arrived too late to improve this negative outlook.
Improved outlook for grain maize and sunflowers
In contrast, the yield forecasts for EU summer crops such as grain maize and sunflowers were revised upwards, mainly because of the timely arrival of rains in May and June which helped improve the outlook - or to sustain an already positive outlook - for these crops in Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece and Spain. The forecasts for grain maize and sunflowers are currently well above the 5-year average.
The yield outlook for spring barley slightly improved at the EU level, due to an upward revision for Spain which outweighed the downward revisions for France, Poland, Germany and several other countries.
BARUTH Bettina;
BASSU Simona;
BUSSAY Attila;
CEGLAR Andrej;
CERRANI Iacopo;
CHEMIN Yann;
DE PALMA Pierluca;
FUMAGALLI Davide;
LECERF Remi;
MANFRON Giacinto;
NISINI SCACCHIAFICHI Luigi;
PANARELLO Lorenzo;
RONCHETTI Giulia;
SEGUINI Lorenzo;
TORETI Andrea;
VAN DEN BERG Maurits;
VAN DER VELDE Marijn;
ZAJAC Zuzanna;
ZUCCHINI Antonio;
BIAVETTI Irene;
VAN DEN BERG Maurits;
BARUTH Bettina;
NIEMEYER Stefan;
VAN DER VELDE Marijn;
2020-12-18
Publications Office of the European Union
JRC120740
2443-8278 (online),
2443-826X (print),
OP KJ-AW-20-006-EN-N (online),
OP KJ-AW-20-006-EN-C (print),
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC120740,
