Strategie Grains See Lower EU Cereal Plantings
French analysts Strategie Grains say that cereal plantings in the EU-27 will fall by more than a million hectares to 56.97 million ha for the 2010 harvest.
That's a fall of around 1.8%, only that little (?) I hear you say. That's right folks, barley plantings will unsurprisingly see the sharpest decline, down (a not too whopping) 6% to 13.09 million hectares, they say.
Meanwhile they are actually forecasting an increase in soft wheat area, up 1% to 22.86 million hectares.
Oilseed plantings will rise, particularly OSR sowings up by 6% to 6.8 million hectares, they say.
An additional 300,000 hectares will go into set-aside say our garlic-munching chums.
They also dropped their corn production estimate for this current season by almost three quarters of a million tonnes to 56.21 MMT. That hardly inspires confidence in next season's predictions if you ask me if they are still struggling to get 2009 right.
That's a fall of around 1.8%, only that little (?) I hear you say. That's right folks, barley plantings will unsurprisingly see the sharpest decline, down (a not too whopping) 6% to 13.09 million hectares, they say.
Meanwhile they are actually forecasting an increase in soft wheat area, up 1% to 22.86 million hectares.
Oilseed plantings will rise, particularly OSR sowings up by 6% to 6.8 million hectares, they say.
An additional 300,000 hectares will go into set-aside say our garlic-munching chums.
They also dropped their corn production estimate for this current season by almost three quarters of a million tonnes to 56.21 MMT. That hardly inspires confidence in next season's predictions if you ask me if they are still struggling to get 2009 right.