Europe Braces for More Crop Loss and Damage as Rains Lash Down

Europe’s farmers, faced with rotting and diseased crops still sitting in some fields, see more pain ahead as ever more rain delays winter planting.

In northwest Europe, October marks a transition between one crop cycle and the next. Farmers finish harvesting their summer produce and plant for winter. But bad weather could mean a second year of losses after the region’s agricultural powerhouse France recorded its worst wheat harvest in decades.