On Thursday 20 September, the EU agricultural cooperatives and organisations, Copa-Cogeca, warned that European cereal production will be down 12.2% in 2018.
“The figures confirm Copa and Cogeca’s June forecasts”, with production of hardly 273 million tonnes compared with over 300 million last year, a press release explains.
Member states should now fully implement all available climatic risk tools at their disposal, Copa-Cogeca say, following the severe drought that is still not...