EU crop monitor forecasts EU 2024 soft wheat yield up 2%

European Union crop monitoring service MARS on Monday forecast that the average soft wheat yield in the EU this year would reach 5.9 1metric tons per hectare (t/ha), up 2% from 2023.

In its first yield forecasts for 2024, MARS projected the EU durum wheat yield at 3.44t/ha, up 5% from 2023 and the winter barley yield at 5.95 t/ha, down 2% from last year.

In oilseeds it pegged the bloc’s average rapeseed yield at 3.25t/ha, up 2% from last year.

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