The wheat production has been revised down from 143.0 mln t to 141.5 mln t, mainly due to lower than previously expected winter wheat plantings in Germany, Italy, and Hungary. Last year’s crop was at 128.2 mln t. The EU-27+UK 2021 barley production is still forecast at 61.5 mln t, down from 63.9 mln t last year. While Germany and France are forecast to see much better crops than in 2020, production is seen down in Spain, where weather during the most critical crop development stage has been excellent in 2020, and in the UK, where spring barley planting should decrease substantially as the country has planted more winter grains this year than last year.
The EU-27+UK 2021 corn crop forecast has not changed either and is still seen up year-on-year at 63.5 mln t (last year: 62.4 mln t), with much higher crops in the Balkan countries and small reductions in several other EU member states. The EU-27+UK rapeseed crop is still forecast to recover slightly from 17.1 mln t to 17.7 mln t because of slightly higher crops in several countries, including Germany, France, the UK, Romania, Bulgaria and Hungary.
