Russians trump French in wheat exports

Although the quality is good, the agricultural service FranceAgriMer has lowered export expectations for French wheat. The service now assumes an export of 10 million tons of French common wheat to countries outside the EU. The new estimate of the export quantity is 300,000 tons lower than the estimates made in July this year. FranceAgriMer explains this lower estimate is on the basis of the large harvest in Russia and the highly competitive prices at which that wheat is placed on the world m