JRC MARS Bulletin - Crop monitoring in Europe - March 2025 - Vol. 33 No 2

Promising start to spring

Across most of the EU, winter crops are in fairly good condition. Compared with the same time last year, there are fewer and generally smaller areas where crops are currently affected by unfavourable weather conditions. However, there are a number of areas of concern for which the upcoming weather conditions will be decisive. Regions where crops were irreversibly impacted remain confined to parts of Romania and Bulgaria, as well as (more seriously) in eastern parts of Ukraine, Morocco and western Algeria.
Weather conditions have generally been favourable for seedbed preparation, the sowing of spring cereals, and other field operations.
The crop yield forecasts at this early stage of the season are predominantly based on historical trends, resulting in figures at EU level that are above last year’s poor results, and above the 5-year average.

BIAVETTI Irene; BUSSAY Attila; CERRANI Iacopo; CLAVERIE Martin ; DE PALMA Pierluca; FUMAGALLI Davide; HENIN Riccardo; LUQUE REYES Jose; MANFRON Giacinto ; MOREL Julien; NIEMEYER Stefan; NISINI Luigi; OZALP Ozlem; PANARELLO Lorenzo; ROSSI Mattia; SEGUINI Lorenzo ; TARNAVSKY Elena ; THIEMIG Vera; TODOROFF Pierre ; VANDENBERG Maurits ; ZUCCHINI Antonio

VANDENBERG Maurits ; THIEMIG Vera; NIEMEYER Stefan

European Commission: Joint Research Centre, BIAVETTI, I., BUSSAY, A., CERRANI, I., CLAVERIE, M., DE PALMA, P., FUMAGALLI, D., HENIN, R., LUQUE REYES, J., MANFRON, G., MOREL, J., NIEMEYER, S., NISINI, L., OZALP, O., PANARELLO, L., ROSSI, M., SEGUINI, L., TARNAVSKY, E., THIEMIG, V., TODOROFF, P., VANDENBERG, M. and ZUCCHINI, A., JRC MARS Bulletin - Crop monitoring in Europe - March 2025 - Vol. 33 No 2, VANDENBERG, M., THIEMIG, V. and NIEMEYER, S. editor(s), Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, 2025, https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2760/2115248, JRC141319.

2025-02-24

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