In France, the production of winter grain crops will be below the average for the past five years. Losses in Spain are also big. In Germany and Poland the drought had a relatively limited impact on the crops.

Average EU soft wheat yield will be 5.86 mt/ ha at 5.91 mt / ha in the May forecast and 6.05 mt / ha in the April forecast.

The forecast for average barley yield is lowered to 4.7 mt/ ha of 4.76 mt / ha in the May forecast.

Corn yield is expected to be lower as well 7.14 mt / ha (7.15).

The rape yield is increased from 3.17 mt/ ha to 3.22 mt/ ha, below the level of the last five years.

MARS corrected its forecasts for crop yields in Ukraine in the new season. Wheat yield is expected to reach 3.91 mt/ ha at 4.21 mt/ ha in 2016, and an average of 3.69 mt/ ha for the past five years. The yield of barley will be 3.02 mt/ ha (3.30 and 2.73), that of corn 6.00 mt/ ha  (6.60 and 5.84) and of sunflower 2.11 mt/ ha (2.24 and 2.04).