Small durum wheat harvest in the EU

The EU Commission has again reduced the estimate of the usable amount of durum wheat in the 2020/21 marketing year. Only 7.2 million t are said to have been threshed. That is 80,000 less than had been forecast in the previous estimate. This development is based on an area correction of 8,000 groves in Greece, reports the Agricultural Market Information Society (AMI). The smallest EU durum wheat harvest in the past two decades leaves little scope for exports and is likely to develop slowly this season. The lack of supply slows down deliveries to third countries. These have totaled 181,237 t since the start of the season. This corresponds to less than a third of the previous year's amount. At the same time, the export of durum wheat flour to third countries is losing momentum. In the weeks before, it was consistently above the previous year's line, and slipped below it in the eighth calendar week of 2021. The 157,000 t mentioned by the EU Commission are still above average. The ...