Maize| The European Union's crop monitoring service

The European Union's crop monitoring service MARS slightly raised its forecast for the grain maize yield in this year's European Union harvest, to 6.43 tonnes per hectare (t/ha) from 6.40 t/ha estimated last month. Grain maize yields would still be 20.4 percent below from last year and down 8.5 percent on the five-year average, said in the report.