JRC MARS Bulletin - Crop monitoring in Europe - October 2025 - Vol. 33 No 9
Disappointing summer crop season in the south-east
The 2025 summer crop harvest is under way, with mostly near or above-average summer crop yields expected at EU level. Only grain maize and sunflower have been strongly affected in the south-eastern Europe, pulling the EU outlook down to –3 % and –10 % below the five-year average, respectively. In contrast, near- or above-average yields for most summer crops are forecast in northern and western European countries.
This October edition of the JRC MARS Bulletin includes an extended section on sowing conditions and the early establishment of winter crops across Europe. Favourable weather and field conditions from France to Poland, and from Scandinavia to Italy, have supported timely sowing with good emergence and early crop development. In contrast, excessive wetness in parts of Bulgaria and Romania delayed winter cereal sowings, while in Portugal, Spain and parts of eastern Croatia and Hungary the sowing of winter crops has been delayed due to continuously dry soils. Uniform crop emergence in these regions will require rainfall arriving soon that, indeed, is likely to occur in the coming weeks.
BEN AOUN Wassim;
BIAVETTI Irene;
BUSSAY Attila;
CERRANI Iacopo;
CLAVERIE Martin;
DE PALMA Pierluca;
FUMAGALLI Davide;
HENIN Riccardo;
LUQUE REYES Jose;
MOREL Julien;
NIEMEYER Stefan;
NISINI Luigi;
PANARELLO Lorenzo;
ROSSI Mattia;
SEGUINI Lorenzo;
TARNAVSKY Elena;
THIEMIG Vera;
TODOROFF Pierre;
ZUCCHINI Antonio;
THIEMIG Vera;
BEN AOUN Wassim;
NIEMEYER Stefan;
2025-02-24
Publications Office of the European Union
JRC141609
2443-8278 (online),
OP KJ-01-25-084-EN-N (online),
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC141609,
10.2760/6638277 (online),
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