French soft wheat shipments outside the European Union last month reached their highest for an October since the 2014/15 season as shipments to China ramped up following a drop in September, ProAgro Group reports citing Nasdaq.
Soft wheat exports to destinations outside the 27-country bloc totalled 973,300 tonnes in October, the fourth month of the 2021/22 season, an initial estimate based on Refinitiv loading data showed.
China was the largest non-EU destination for French soft wheat for the second consecutive month, with an initial estimate of 431,500 tonnes, followed by Algeria with 193,400 tonnes.
France is the EU’s biggest grain exporter.
Farming agency FranceAgriMer this month trimmed its forecast for French soft wheat exports outside the EU over the full July-June 2021/22 season to 9.4 million tonnes, but this is still 2 million tonnes above last season’s total.
Total grain shipments to all destinations from French ports in October – including barley, malting barley, maize, waxy maize, malt and durum wheat – were at the highest since the 2014/15 season at 1.61 million tonnes.
