Crop Monitoring and Yield ForecastingCrop Monitoring and Yield Forecasting AGRI4CAST has been developing and operationally running a crop yield forecasting system since 1992 in order to provide timely crop production forecasts at European level. The AGRI4CAST system, also known as the MARS Crop Yield Forecasting System (MCYFS), monitors crop vegetation growth (cereal, oil seed crops, protein crops, sugar beet, potatoes, pastures, rice), including the short-term effects of meteorological events on crop production, and provides seasonal yield forecasts of key European crops, thereby contributing to the evaluation of global production estimates (wheat, maize, etc.) in support of CAP management decisions. The MCYFS is a complex, integrated analysis tool comprising remote sensing and meteorological observations, meteorological forecasts, agro-meteorological and biophysical modelling as well as statistical analyses.
While the crop yield forecasts for Europe are produced on a regular basis, other main producing areas of the world receive increasing attention, since global commodity markets increasingly influence the Common Agricultural Policy. Therefore, the Action further enhances the MCYFS by extending its simulation capacities to methodologies tailored to other crop producing regions and by a stepwise extension of crop yield forecasts towards key regional production areas in the world.
Detailed information of the components of the MARS Crop Yield Forecasting System can be found in our WikiMCYFS.
The main product of the crop monitoring and yield forecasting activities are the MARS Bulletins regularly published on our web pages.
For a link into our online MARS Viewer with many near real-time information on crop weather conditions, please visit the MARS-OP pages. This site is managed, under a JRC contract, by Alterra, Wageningen. You will need to register to view to information materials.
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