Crop monitoring in Europe - MARS Bulletin Vol. 23 No 11 (2015) - Improved weather conditions for winter crops

摘要

Temperatures from the end of October until mid-Novemberwere well above average across most of Europe, and thehighest in our records (since 1975) for the United Kingdom,France, Germany, Scandinavia and the Baltic countries.Such temperatures are beneficial to the development of theemerged winter crops.Conditions improved in Poland, Ukraine and Russia, wherebeneficial rains and higher temperatures provided relief fromthe difficulties reported in the previous bulletin. The precedingunfavourable germination conditions may yet have aknock-on effect on next year’s yields, depending on the winterand spring conditions to come.A large belt in central and eastern Europe is experiencinga period of rain scarcity, which has been beneficial for thesowing and emergence of winter crops. Most of these regionsfaced excessive rainfall during the first half of October.In southern Italy, torrential rain occurred at the end of October,prior to the sowing of winter crops. High positive rainfallanomalies have been recorded in the north-western UnitedKingdom, but not in crop-growing regions.