Life On MARS

Posted by Nogger - a legend in his own mind at 12:44 | Categorized as

24/08/11 -- The EU’s Monitoring Agricultural Resources unit (MARS) say that the EU-27 will produce 136.47 MMT of wheat this year, 3 MMT more than the current USDA estimate.

Barley output will come in at 53.73 MMT, corn production at 61.51 MMT and that of rapeseed at 19.11 MMT, they say.

Those are 2.2 MMT, 1.5 MMT and 0.3 MMT higher than the USDA project.

Wheat yields in the UK are seen averaging 7.78 MT/ha, down 3.4% on last year. Barley yields are forecast at 5.67 MT/ha, down 5.5% and rapeseed yields at 3.55 MT/ha, up 1.4%.