date:Mar 11, 2014
The European Union's wheat production should remain nearly unchanged in 2014/2015 as a rise in the area sown should offset lower yields, the European Commission said on Wednesday. In its first estimate for the 2014 harvest, the Commission pegged the EU's usable production at 134.7 million tonnes, against 134.3 million in 2013, based on a 2.8 percent rise in area sown and a 2.3 percent fall in yields.
That would still be nearly 5 percent above the five-year average. The Commission saw the barle