EU: MARS cuts barley, soft wheat yield forecast
The European Union’s crop monitoring service, MARS, on July 22 cut its forecast of the EU soft wheat yield this year to 6.04 tonnes per hectare (t/ha) from 6.10 t/ha last month.
That would still be 7.3% above last year’s level and 1.6% higher than the average of the past five years, MARS said in a monthly report.
For other cereals, it cut its forecast of EU 2019 all-barley yield to 4.91 t/a from 4.92 t/ha last month. The spring barley yield forecast was reduced to 4.10 t/ha from 4.14 t/ha.
MARS raised projected EU grain maize yield to 8.08 t/ha from 8.05 t/ha in June while the EU rapeseed yield was slightly lowered to 3.10 t/ha from 3.14 t/ha last month.
For sugar beet, MARS cuts its yield forecast for the EU 2019 crop to 73.9 t/ha from 75.7 t/ha last month.
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