South Africa Wheat Area Planted Seen at Third-Smallest on Record
- Wheat plantings exceed intentions by 0.9%, committee says
- Committee raises forecast for corn output, boosted by yellow
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South African farmers have probably planted the third-smallest area of wheat on record while the prediction for this year’s corn harvest is 1.4 percent bigger, the nation’s Crop Estimates Committee said.
Growers have probably sown 486,350 hectares (1.2 million acres) of wheat in 2016, Marda Scheepers, a senior statistician for the Pretoria-based committee, said by phone Wednesday. That’s 0.9 percent more than last season and exceeds what they intended to plant, she said.