South Africa’s Wheat Crop May Be Smallest in 19 Years
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South African farmers may produce the nation’s smallest winter-wheat harvest in 19 years after low prices at the start of the season led to a reduction in planting and as floods and heavy rain damage crops.
Farmers may reap 1.51 million metric tons of the grain this season, 3.8 percent less than earlier forecast, according to the government’s Crop Estimates Committee. That would be the least since 1992, when 1.32 million tons was produced, spokeswoman Marda Scheepers said by phone from Pretoria today.