Worst Wheat Yields Since ’86 Spurs France to Slash Crop Outlook
- Soft-wheat production estimate cut 21%: Agriculture Ministry
- Output falling from record as yields to be 5.57 tons a hectare
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The worst French wheat yields in a generation prompted the European Union’s biggest grower to cut its production forecast by 21 percent in just a month.
The country will harvest 29.1 million metric tons of soft wheat in the season that started last month after heavy rainfall damaged crops, the Agriculture Ministry said in an online report Friday. That’s down from a July estimate of 37 million tons and more than a quarter below last year’s record.