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Remotely Sensing Crop Prices Friday, September 21, 2018
Remotely Sensing Crop Prices
Remotely Sensing Crop Prices
Sep 21, 2018
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A prolonged heatwave in northern Europe created havoc in the summer of 2018. Sweden was blazing with uncharacteristic wildfires; swaths of the United Kingdom turned brown; and Germany endured a summer-long drought. Now, experts say the prolonged hot and dry conditions affected this year's European wheat production, influencing global wheat prices.
“This is a pretty bad year for crop conditions as far as Europe is concerned,” said Brian Barker, a geospatial scientist at University of Maryland. "In Germany, the Czech Republic, Norway, and Lithuania, crop yields have significantly dropped and are in poAdditional text has been truncated due to copyright reasons. Things without URLs and private things don't get truncated.