*2.1. Study Area*

The Medimurje County, illustrated in Figure ¯ 1, is one of the main crop product regions and is the northernmost part of Croatia. The study area covers over 700 km2, from which around 360 km<sup>2</sup> are used in agriculture, which mostly includes fields of

cereals, maize, potato, orchards, and vineyards. According to the Koppen–Geiger climate classification system [35], this region has a temperate oceanic climate (Cfb), characterized by warm summer. The mean annual temperature for 2018 in the study area is 10.2 ◦C with precipitation of 846 mm/year [36].
