French consultancy Agritel said July 26 it expects the soft wheat crop in France to fall 5.6 per cent this year after adverse weather.
“French producers have had to deal with frost, drought, hail and scorching temperatures. These phenomena affected most of France with different degrees of intensity,” Agritel said in a statement.
Its estimate was well above the French farm ministry’s projection earlier this month of a 2022 soft wheat crop at 32.9 million tonnes, but the harvest would still be the seventh lowest since 2000.
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Prospects for a smaller wheat crop in France come as global supplies are already tight after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Some international wheat buyers have since turned to the EU, with France now expected to ship far more wheat this season despite a lower crop.
