As of 24.10.2022, 3.6 million hectares of winter cereals were sown in Ukraine (76% of the forecast and 954,000 hectares for the last week), including 3.1 million hectares of wheat (79%) and 390,000 hectares of barley (58%).
The Buenos Aires Grain Exchange has once again reduced its forecast for the wheat production in Argentina to 15.2 million tons (16.5 in last week's forecast).
The Rosario Grain Exchange lowered its forecast for the 2022/23 wheat production in Argentina by 1.5 million tons to 15 million tons (-35% compared to 2021/22 or 22.4).
SovEcon raised their forecast for the grain production in Russia in 2022 to 152 million tons (151.4 in the previous estimate), including wheat production of 100.6 million tons (100).
According to the forecast of the Ministry of Agriculture of Ukraine, 4 million hectares will be sown with winter wheat in the country in 2022(5 a year earlier), and 0.5 million hectares (0.8) with barley.
According to data from FranceAgriMer, the export of soft wheat from France to countries outside the EU will reach 10.1 million tons in 2022/23 (+0.1 compared to the previous estimate and +15% compared to the previous season).