The European umbrella organization of the grain traders Coceral today increased his forecast for the 2016er soft wheat harvest in the EU today by 145,2 million tons to 148 million tonnes. The estimate is still under the actual harvest over 150.3 million tonnes in 2015.
Barley production in the EU increased to 63.2 million tonnes from 58.9 million tons by Coceral. So that the quantity of harvest would be higher than last year, when 61.1 million tonnes have been retracted.
The estimate of the EU maize harvest for this year is 62.4 million tons, still 63.2 million tonnes were expected in March. Both but would more than 58.5 million tons in the previous year.
EU rapeseed harvesting is prized by the Association now to 22 million tonnes, in March it was estimated 21.6 million tons. Last year the EU rapeseed harvest was 21.7 million tons.
