Wheat

French 2019 Soft Wheat Crop To Be Second-Largest In History: Agritel

Farmers in France, the European Union's largest grain producer, will harvest their second largest soft wheat crop in history this year at 39.17 million ton...

EU Heading For Large Wheat Crop Despite Early Summer Heatwave

The European Union is set for a larger wheat harvest this summer as a heatwave in late June which wilted some crops had a less severe impact than initially...

Russia Eyes 2035 Grain Crop Boom With $70bn Investment Plan

The Agriculture Ministry said on Tuesday it saw Russia's grain crop rising as high as 150.3 million tonnes by 2035 in an "optimistic scenario" as...

Heatwave Prompts Cut In Strategie Grains EU Wheat Crop Forecast

Strategie Grains cut its monthly forecast for this year's European Union soft wheat harvest by more than 2 million tonnes as it factored in a late-June hea...

France Sees Wheat Crop Rising To 37m Tonnes, Rapeseed At 16-Year Low

France is on course to harvest 37.0 million tonnes of soft wheat this year, 8.5% more than in 2018, the country's farm ministry said on Tues...

Agritel Forecasts Ukraine Wheat Crop To Reach 28.8m Tonnes

Ukrainian wheat production could jump by 16.9% to 28.8 million tonnes this year, with favourable growing weather expected to result in record yields, Frenc...

Russian Heatwave Not Affecting Spring Wheat Areas Too Much

Conditions for Russia's spring wheat harvest are generally good or satisfactory with only a few areas affected by a heatwave that has hit some parts of the...

EU Crop Monitor Raises Wheat, Maize Yield Forecasts, Trims Barley

Beneficial rainfall in much of the European Union has led the bloc's crop monitoring service to raise monthly yield forecasts for this year's wheat and mai...