The average soft wheat yield in this year’s European Union harvest is expected to reach 5.98 tonnes per hectare (t/ha), down from a projected yield of 6.05 t/ha in July, the EU’s crop monitoring service said on Monday.
That would still be 5.0% above the average EU soft wheat yield of the past five years, and 4.8% above last year, the MARS service said in a report.
MARS slightly revised up its forecast of the 2021 EU total barley yield, including both winter and spring barley, to 4.99 t/ha from 4.96 t/ha expected in July.
For grain maize, MARS raised the projected EU yield to 7.90 t/ha, from 7.88 t/ha seen last month.
The forecast EU rapeseed yield was raised to 3.21 t/ha from 3.19 t/ha in July while for this year’s sugar beet crop, it estimated the EU yield at 75.0 t/ha, up from 73.5 t/ha forecast last month.
Source: Reuters (Reporting by Sybille de La Hamaide, editing by Forrest Crellin, Kirsten Donovan)