The European Union has updated crop estimates on this morning.
They now see corn production at 67.8 MMT, down 1 million from the last estimate.
Soft wheat was at 130.3 MMT, down from 131.
Barley was estimated to a total of 51.9 MMT, down .5.
Rapeseed was a fraction higher than last month at 17 MMT.
Corn imports into the Union are estimated to a total of 14.5 MMT.
Soft wheat imports are at 30 MMT.
Rapeseed imports at 5.7 MMT.
Meantime, French farmers had harvested 54% of this year’s grain maize crop by Oct. 25, farm office FranceAgriMer said on this morning.
That underline, a field work far behind the usual pace.
Indeed, in spite harvest progress had advanced from 32% a week earlier, it is compared with 87% at the same stage last year.
Additionally, this year’s harvest was also showing an 11-day lag compared with the average pace of the past five years.
As for winter grains sowing, meantime, FranceAgriMer said 61% of the expected soft wheat area had been drilled by Oct. 25, up from 40% a week earlier.
That is however behind the 63% achieved at the same stage last year.
Winter barley sowing, in contrast, was 78% complete, against 59% the previous week and 77% a year earlier.
Still durum wheat sowing is under way, with only 7% of the expected area drilled.
