French Grain Sales Well Ahead Of Last Year
ONIGC reports that French farmers sold 27.8 mln t of grain from July to September 2008, the first three months of marketing year 2008/09. This is much above the 24.1 mln t sold in the same period of last year. The total includes 18.0 (16.0) mln t of soft wheat (excl. durum), 1.0 (1.2) mln t of durum, 7.3 (5.8) mln t of barley and 763,000 (670,000) t of corn.