JRC MARS Bulletin - Crop monitoring in Europe - November 2025 - Vol. 33 No 10
Winter crops generally well established
While the 2025 harvest season is ending, with only sugar beet still being collected, the 2026 winter crop season has begun across Europe. Sowing is progressing well in most regions, and the establishment of winter cereals and rapeseed is generally favourable.
Dry conditions are slowing sowing in central Italy, eastern Hungary and western Romania. Excessive rainfall in southern Romania and northern Bulgaria has caused major delays. Outside the EU, Türkiye and the Maghreb continue to face severe rainfall deficits, leading to a suboptimal start to the season.
With a mild autumn in the past few weeks, winter hardening is noticeably less advanced than at this time last year. With lower temperatures arriving, the limited hardening, in some areas combined with delayed development, increases vulnerability to frost damage.
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
JRC141610
2443-8278 (online),
OP KJ-01-25-090-EN-N (online),
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC141610,
10.2760/4463007 (online),
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