French Wheat Crop 38.66 MMT - FranceAgrimer

The French 2009/10 all wheat crop is 38.66 MMT, according to FranceAgrimer, a decrease of 1.4% on last season's 39.21 MMT. Soft wheat production is 36.55 MMT and durum wheat output 2.11 MMT, they say.

Soft wheat exports this season will total 7.09 MMT (2008/09 6.76 MMT) to fellow EU-27 destinations, and 8.75 MMT (9.59 MMT) to homes outside the EU-27 they add.

That will leave ending stocks of 3.58 MMT, up from 3.1 MMT at the end of 2008/09

Corn production this season is now seen 5.5% lower at 14.81 MMT and barley output is said to be 5% higher at 12.91 MMT.

Barley ending stocks will rise dramatically from 1.58 MMT in 2008/09 to 3.36 MMT in 2009/10 they say. Corn ending stocks will fall from 2.34 MMT to 1.91 MMT, they add.