Hungary: Supply problem in the flour market

The average yield is 6 tonnes from the bottom, we harvested about 4.9 to 5 million tonnes of bread cereals this year - about 80 per cent of which is food grade. Now there was no fungal infection, no toxin production. In this respect, the 2021 harvest is unparalleled in its kind. While we finally got a big crop from an unprecedentedly small area of winter wheat, the mills were in a distressed situation. Growers either don’t want to sell the wheat at all for what they are offering now, or they ask to talk about the business only after January 1, saying sales are not important to them right now. Zoltán Lakatos, - It would be good if we could blindly trust our statistics, but we are far from that now, because of the 920 thousand hectares of winter wheat reported in May, only 846 thousand hectares remained for July. There is nothing to explain this loss of 74,000 hectares in today’s digital world. It would be good if we could say accurate data on the sown area as early as December. Yet ...