date:Jul 23, 2014
Premiums for higher-quality wheat in France jumped on Monday as heavy weekend rain added to fears that this year's harvest in the European Union's top producer and exporter will be spoiled by poor quality. Farmers in eastern France have reported alarming quality indications for wheat, blamed on repeated rainfall in early July in the run-up to harvesting. After a dry spell last week, storms across France at the weekend brought as much as 50 mm of rain in some areas.
On the French cash market on