The French consulting firm FranceAgriMer has today updated its assessment of local crops.
Then, 69% of the maize areas are rated with "good to excellent". This is an unchanged to the previous week.
There are only 62% of the summer barley in the leading group "good to excellent", compared to 67% in the previous week. 3% of summer barley is already closed. Last year, there were 13% on the same date.
44% of winter barley in France is rated now with "good to excellent"; in the previous week, there were still 53%. 77% of the French winter barley is harvested, 92% in the previous year there were already on the same date.
The valuation of stocks of wheat is especially bad down: 49% are still in the top flight, in contrast to last week when it was 59%. 7% of French winter wheat is harvested, in the previous year there were 31% to this appointment.
