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EU wheat harvest and quality issues

17-07-2014.

EU consisting of 28-member states is expected to have harvest 140 million tonnes of soft wheat. This is almost 5% more than last year. Mostly better yield will have Germany, France, Romania, Hungary, and some others, but lower is expecteed in Spain, Italy, Greece and Croatia.

On the other hand, heavy rains now in July brought concerns that quality of wheat will be lower, towarsd feed grade is some countries. This will be problematic to sell and export. Poor quality is mostlz in Italy, Greece and Croatia and satisfactory quality in Romania and Hungary.
Also issues are possible in France, Germany, Poland due to the rains of the last few days