The French Ministry of Agriculture anticipates soft wheat crop in the new season to reach 36.2 million tonnes at average yield of 7.04 mt/ha and areas under cultivation in amount of 5.147 million hectares.
According to USDA, weekly export sales of corn form the US (week until June 29th, 2017) dropped to 3 years low against the backdrop of major competition on the part of Brazil and Argentina.
In the new economic year 2017-2018 (starting in July) 37 million tonnes of grain will be exported from Russia given an export potential of 40 million tonnes, according to Rusagrotrans.
Winter barley crop in the EU will reach 58 million tonnes, by 1.6 million tonnes less then the May forecast and by 2 million tonnes less the the 2016 crop.
