MARS: Corn yields in the EU with a broad range from -13 to +21% on average The EU Agricultural Meteorological Institute (MARS) estimates this year's maize yields in a wide range from -13% in Italy to + 21 % in Romania to the 5-year average. The main causes provide different regional weather conditions during the growing season. This year's corn harvest in Italy was not a good star. According to the climate data analyzes of Mars, a yield of 8.96 t / ha is predicted, which is 13% behind the multi-year average. The main reason is insufficient rainfall in the northern growing areas. In France , maize sowing initially began under average conditions, but later on it turned out that there had been too little precipitation in much of the country to allow an average crop to ripen.With a yield of only 8.28 tonnes per hectare , this year's result is expected to be 10% lower than the 5-year average of 9.17 tonnes / ha. In Germany , one also expects a 10% drop in earnings. In this case too, sufficient precipitation was lacking, especially in the northern growing areas with a focus on sandy soils. The insufficient rainfall continued through to Poland . The result is an 18% decline in income in this country. Spain has once again experienced a below-average corn harvest due to a lack of nets. The forecast is -5% below average. By contrast, far above-average yields are expected in the Southeastern European corn growing region. The leader is Romania with an estimated yield of 6.25 t / ha, which is +21% above the 5-year average.But Hungary, Croatia and Bulgaria also expect high earnings growth of between +4 and +6%. In relation to the entire EU-28, a short multi-year return is expected. The EU Commission estimates the total maize harvest at 65 million tonnes on a narrow average. The high corn imports of the previous year are reduced back to the usual level.
