The corn harvest in France was higher than last year, but still bad

French farmers have harvested 12.5 million tons of corn grain this season, 13.5% more than a year earlier, when Europe suffered the worst drought in 400 years, the online publication All About Feed reported on November 20. The 2023 harvest is 6% below the five-year average, agricultural statistics service Agreste said. Corn occupied 1.239 million hectares, 132 thousand hectares less than in 2022. The yield in 2023 was 9.85 tons per hectare, in 2022 7.85 tons per hectare, due to which production increased. The French grew 15.9 million tons of corn for silage, 15.6% more than in 2022, and approximately at the level of the five-year average. The reduction in area by 1,244 thousand hectares was offset by better yields of 12.77 tons per hectare. Agreste reported that the sunflower harvest was ...