EU Wheat Crop Shrinking - Strategie Grains
The EU 2009 wheat crop is getting smaller say French analysts Strategie Grains, who have cut their soft wheat estimate for the current season by 2.6 MMT from last month to 126.3 MMT.
That's a 10% decrease on last season's output of 140 MMT, due to reduced plantings and drought.
Sharply reduced production is expected from the UK, Spain, Romania and Hungary they say.
Note, this is soft wheat production we are talking here, the table on the right of the blog includes durum wheat as well.
Strategie Grains also lopped 2 MMT off last month's barley production estimate too to 59.2 MMT, and 1.4 MMT off their corn forecast to 57.4 MMT.
That's a 10% decrease on last season's output of 140 MMT, due to reduced plantings and drought.
Sharply reduced production is expected from the UK, Spain, Romania and Hungary they say.
Note, this is soft wheat production we are talking here, the table on the right of the blog includes durum wheat as well.
Strategie Grains also lopped 2 MMT off last month's barley production estimate too to 59.2 MMT, and 1.4 MMT off their corn forecast to 57.4 MMT.
