Copa and Cogeca, the EU’s farming and agricultural cooperative organisations, published new forecasts for 2018 EU cereal production on Monday 2 July. They estimate a 6% drop in cereal and oilseed crops, resulting from extreme weather conditions.
Copa and Cogeca Cereals Working Party chairman Max Schulman said that farmers in some Central and Northern European countries – Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Denmark, Sweden, Poland, Germany and Finland – had been hit by severe drought, while...