PARIS: France's 2017 wheat crop was showing very good protein content while other quality specifications appeared adequate to meet market needs despite the impact of late rain, farm office FranceAgriMer said on Tuesday.
"In terms of quality, the protein content of soft wheat is very satisfactory, even in fields showing very high yields." FranceAgriMer said in a harvest report.
Protein levels were often above 12 percent, it said, well above the 11 percent average seen in France in recent years and meeting common milling standards.
Results for test weights and Hagberg falling numbers, two other measures of wheat quality, were more mixed due to rain at the end of the growth cycle but should meet market requirements, the office said.
France's farm ministry on Monday raised its production estimate for the French wheat harvest, which is almost finished, confirming a rebound from last year's poor crop.
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