FAO first wheat forecasts for 2013 anticipates second largest crop on record

Wednesday, March 20th 2013 - 08:22 UTC

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First forecasts for the 2013 wheat harvest point to production increasing to 690 million tons, 4.3% up on 2012. This would be the second largest crop on record, according to the latest issue of FAO quarterly “Crop Prospects and Food Situation” report. The production hike is expected mostly in Europe, driven by increased plantings in response to high prices and a recovery in yields in some countries, notably the Russian Federation. Read full article

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GeoffWard2
'... 2013 anticipates second largest crop on record'

Not in the UK , it doesn't. Farmers in many counties have lost three sequential sown crops to floods, water-logging and drought, all within an annual cycle.
And, once more, floods and landslides cripple communities in Petropolis, where the Brasilian government emplaced controls to ensure that the recent huge landslip mortalities never would happen again.
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