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EU crop monitor ups soft wheat, barley, maize yield forecasts
PARIS: The European Union's crop monitoring service slightly increased its forecast of this year's soft wheat
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This would be 8.2 percent above the average EU soft wheat yield in 2016, when the crop was hit by adverse weather, the MARS service said in a monthly report published on Monday.
It also slightly lifted its outlook for the EU's 2017 winter barley yield to 5.82 t/ha from 5.81 t/ha last month, but left the spring barley yield forecast unchanged at 4.21 t/ha.
For grain maize, MARS put the average yield at 7.13 t/ha, up from 7.12 t/ha seen last month.
In oilseeds, MARS lowered its projection of this year's rapeseed yield to 3.27 t/ha from 3.29 t/ha.
It kept its forecast of the EU's average sugar beet yield in 2017 unchanged at 74.2 t/ha.