Commission corrects EU crop end of the year 2016 down - less export The European Commission has published its latest assessment of the supply situation with corne to the end of the year. Corrected the result in some points compared to the previous forecasts. Usable harvest 2016/17 is prized on 294.6 million tonnes , or 17 million less than in the previous year and 34 million tonnes less than in the previous year. The crucial harvest reductions can be found again during the wheat harvest, fell back to only around 17 million tonnes. However, the barley and maize crops have slightly risen. However, the maize crop with 60 million tonnes, significantly below the previous average results by 65 to 70 million tonnes left. The grain consumption to slightly increasing in the year 2016/17 to around 1 million tonnes to 284.5 million tonnes . With approximately 175 million tonnes into the feed sector. Unmodified 65 million tons are used for direct human consumption. Industrial use absorbs rd 33 million tonnes. Of the EU cereal trade is estimated on the Import page on imports of 19 million tonnes. Of higher estimated 13 million tons come from the maize imports alone. A significant portion of which is in deficit countries Spain and Portugal and in the North-Western processing centre. At the Getreideexport the EU will go back to 35 million tonnes compared to the previous two years, with about 50 million tonnes. The key reason lies in the disastrous wheat harvest in France, whose harvesting is broken up by more than 30%. In addition lacks the necessary qualities in this year. The EU cereals balance sheet results in a significant decrease of closing stock from 48 million to 43 million tonnes, which reflected a drop of 33% in the wheat sector particularly hard. The wheat stocks at the end of the marketing year will almost exactly as low are like the high-priced year 2013/14 For the upcoming harvest of 2017 it is by keeping the same acreage and average Flächenerträgen in height of 5.5 t / ha. The result should be a harvest in order of 310 to 315 million tonnes . But because weather plays a decisive role.
