date:Jul 31, 2012
articular Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan - where the harvest is expected to be 17 per cent down on the 2011/2012 estimates - a drop of about 24 million tonnes.
This is in part because Ukraine is reported to have lost two million hectares in planting this winter through freezing weather. Ukrainian wheat production is expected to be 41 per cent down and Kazakhstan's wheat production is forecast to be 34 per cent down.
The European Union, which also suffered a huge freeze during the winter is exp