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4.5million tons The amount of wheat harvested in Afghanistan this year, almost triple the 2008 total and its biggest wheat crop in 50 years. As a result, poppy production has [...]

China's harvest of 'summer grain' and early rice has dropped by 8.5 million tonnes to 135.9mt in 2001, according to the State Statistical Bureau. The Bureau does not break down [...]

The UK cereals harvest has crumpled by over 18%, according to the national Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA). British farmers have harvested under 12 million tonnes of [...]

The risk of damage to Argentina's developing wheat crop is climbing as persistent rain refuses to let up, according to the country's agriculture department. The department said in its latest [...]

Kazakhstan may harvest 18 million tonnes of grain in 2001 (bunker weight), according to the country's agriculture ministry. This would be a steep increase from the 13mt (bunker weight; official [...]

Average cereal yields in France have dropped by over 0.4 tonnes per hectare, according to the SCEES, the statistical arm of the French agricultural ministry. The soft wheat harvest is [...]

The Turkish grain sector is working hard to boost productivity and comparative advantage in response to modern market developments, according to an official from the Turkish Grain Board. Yavuz Koca [...]

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The outlook for Bulgaria's 2001 wheat harvest is deteriorating as dry weather hangs over the important producing region of Dobrudzha. Traders report that the soil in Dobrudzha has run out [...]

Turkish wheat production in 2001/02 may hit difficulties due to pests, recent heavy rains and over-speedy growth encouraged by a warm winter. Unusually mild temperatures and lack of snow have [...]

Pakistan has cut its forecast of wheat production in 2001/02 to 17.5 million tonnes from 18.75m. Karachi's agriculture ministry admitted that a worsening water shortage had forced it to bring [...]

Italian farmers are likely to plant more spring maize, soyabeans and sunflowers this year after sowing a lower acreage to soft wheat last autumn. 'Wheat doesn't pay....maize is more remunerative [...]

The UK may have planted 35% less winter wheat in 2000 than in 1999, a survey indicates. The UK's farmers had sown around 1.356 million hectares to wheat by December [...]

Brazil may harvest 2.941 million tonnes of wheat in 2001/02 compared with 1.656m in 2000/01, according to independent analysts Safras e Mercado. The increase will stem mainly from a larger [...]

Portuguese farmers sowed 20% fewer hectares to wheat this winter than during the previous season on account of torrential rains, according to government statistics agency INE. The agency's report, based [...]

Likely returns on Canadian durum wheat are looking more positive, according to the latest Pool Return Outlook (PRO) from the Canadian Wheat Board (CWB). The CWB pegged durum PROs CAN$5 [...]

IMC GLOBAL SAYS IT WILL CUT PHOSPHATE production levels in Louisiana by about 30% indefinitely in a bid to 'improve profitability and help balance supply and demand.' IMC says it [...]

Pakistan has cut its wheat production target for 2001 by 9% to 21 million tonnes because of a scarcity of irrigated water, according to an agriculture official. With wheat planting [...]

Swedish production of organically produced grains has been put at 25 000 tonnes this year, which is 5 000t more than earlier envisioned, industry group EcoTrade said. The abundant organic [...]

As the debate continues over the quality of this year's French wheat crop, the Office Nationale Interprofessionnelle des Cereales (ONIC) has stuck to its guns, pointing to the harvest's favourable [...]

While Spanish officials talk of healthy winter-grain production on the Peninsula, many traders are directing their attention elsewhere as they wait to see whether Britain will be able to supply [...]

Germany's grain production will be very close to last year's figure of 44.4 million tonnes, according to German farmers' association the Deutsche Bauernverband (DBV). Even so, bad weather has probably [...]

Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs) are now likely to see relatively poor grain harvests, and some will probably remain net importers for the season, easing the pressure on global [...]

In neighbouring India, meanwhile, the northern state of Punjab is currently heading for a bumper 9mt wheat crop this year, up by over 14% from last year's 7.92mt, according to [...]

Ukrainian total barley production for the 2000 season may be up to 15% higher on the year, rising to 7.4 million tonnes from 6.42mt in 1998/99, according to the agricultural [...]

Pakistan's wheat production in the 2000 season is forecast to reach 19.3 million tonnes by government officials, thus falling short of the country's 20mt target and probably upsetting Pakistan's plans [...]

This year's Chinese winter wheat crop is suffering the effects of drought in many northern regions, bringing the prospect of winter damage at the crop's peak growing stage. Crops growing [...]

The total area sown to all crops in Romania this year will be around 5.786 million hectares, according to the latest figures from the Romanian ministry of agriculture in Bucharest. [...]

The USDA has increased its estimate for world grain production in the 1999/00 season from 1.857 billion tonnes as forecast in the March world agricultural supply and demand estimates (WASDE) [...]

The International Grains Council (IGC) has reduced its estimate for world grain production in 1999/00 to 1.459 billion tonnes, from 1.462bn tonnes last month (see AE1890, 3.3.00, M/7), thus reversing [...]

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has released its annual Prospective Plantings report, pegging the total area sown to maize up by around 0.6% on the year, from 31.335 million [...]

U.S. production of primary animal feeds, including complete feeds, supplements and premixes, rose 4% during the 1994-98 period, according to a recently released report by the U.S. International Trade Commission [...]

Grain production in the People's Republic of China fell by 1% to 500 million tonnes between 1998 and 1999, according to the German market analyst vwd. Based on data from [...]

Danish winter grain sowings for crops to be harvested in 2000 have risen by 4.2% on the year, from 1.071 million hectares to 1.116m ha, according to the Danish national [...]

Canadian grain and oilseeds production in 2000/01 is expected to total 62.39 million tonnes, according to the latest supply and demand figures released by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) - [...]

Sweden's winter-sown grain acreage soared 60% to 460 000 hectares compared with a year ago, according to data from the National Board of Agriculture. The increase was attributed to this [...]

Ukrainian farmers will have to increase the area sown to maize to at least 1.5 million hectares next year if the country is to have enough domestic supplies of animal [...]

The newly sown UK wheat crops are developing well and have maximised on the recent favourable weather conditions, says agricultural consultancy ADAS. Sowings progressed well at the start of the [...]

Drought in Iran this year, its worst drought for thirty years, has destroyed 27% of the total wheat crop, reports the Iranian Minister of Agriculture, Issa Kalantari, and has also [...]

A leading member of the European Parliament joined officials from the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) this week to push for greater global rice production to stave off starvation [...]

Louis Dreyfus Commodities recently began production at its ethanol plant located near Grand Junction, Iowa. The new plant will produce 100 million gal. of ethanol and 300,000 tons of distillers [...]

EC SET-ASIDE PLANS WILL TAKE 4.4 MHA OUT OF PRODUCTION The land set-aside plans in the Commission's CAP reform proposals will take 4.4 million hectares of arable land in the [...]

Cardinal Ethanol LLC in Union City, Ind., officially began producing ethanol Nov. 4. The $150 million, 100 million-gallon Cardinal Ethanol plant will have 48 full-time employees, will create demand for [...]

Ethanol production has begun at a 110 million-gallon ethanol plant in Greenville, Ohio, the largest in the state. The plant was constructed by The Andersons Marathon Ethanol LLC, a 50/50 [...]

The Andersons Inc. announced that production has begun at the 110 million-gallon ethanol plant owned by The Andersons Clymers Ethanol LLC in Clymers, Ind. Mike Anderson, president president and chief [...]

Spain's Ministry of Agriculture (MAPA) has lowered its annual crop harvest estimate once again to 14.539mt, according to the most recent official figures--down by 500 000t on the previous forecast. [...]

A straw poll by the Teagasc research organisation suggests farmers forced out of sugar beet production by the closure of the industry in Ireland will increase production of spring barley. [...]