Press Release: European Commission forecasts average crop production for 2010 in the EU despite extreme weather

Total cereal production in 2010 should be close to the average from the last five years. While the yield per hectare will be 5% above average, overall cultivated areas have decreased.

This agricultural year has been marked by unusual scattered weather events ranging from severe rain shortage to floods. However, the impact of poor weather on crops in some areas of the EU has been offset in other areas. This forecast, published by the European Commission, is based on analysis by the Commission's in-house scientific service, the Joint Research Centre (JRC), using an advanced crop yield forecasting system

European Commission: Memo/10/361: Crop Yield Forecasts for 2010 http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=MEMO/10/361&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

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