Regional News The weather across Europe and the Black Sea remains widely variable with dramatically different implications for summer crop harvest and winter crop planting for each country. Broadly, conditions in France and northern Germany are too wet, which is delaying corn harvest and winter wheat planting (54 percent planted versus 70 percent on average). In the U.K., rains have also slowed winter crop planting which has increased feed wheat prices and will likely reduce winter barley area in favor of spring barley. As noted last week, WPI sources indicate there is concern about spring barley seed shortages. Elsewhere, Ukraine, Romania, and Bulgaria are too dry, which is reducing winter crop (most notably, winter wheat) area. Finally,...

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