On February 22, 2017, Egypt’s State Company GASC purchased 360,000 tons of milling wheat from Ukraine and Russia to be delivered between March 25 and April 4, 2017.
Canadian Ministry of Agriculture lowered its forecast on 2017 wheat production in the country by 0.5 mln tons versus 2016 down to 28.6 mln tons. Spring wheat production forecast was lowered by 3.12 mln tons.
Spain imported 7.13 mln tons of grain in the first half of the current season (July - June), which is 18% less than the same period of last year, Spanish Ministry of Agriculture reported.