The French Ministry of agriculture has reduced in recent weeks to 36,95 million tonnes its Prognsoe the soft wheat crop due to the adverse weather conditions. That would be a decline of 9.7% to the record harvest by 2015.
The revenue forecast is 7.07 tons per hectare versus 7.93 tons per hectare last year. The prognosis of the acreage was increased by 5.16 million hectares to 5.23 million hectares.
Barley production (winter and spring barley): 11.7 million tonnes (- 10.1% the previous year)
Rape seed production (winter and spring rape): 4.8 million tonnes (- 9.1% the previous year)
