A reduction according to EU farmers' group Copa-Cogeca to its estimate of this year's EU grain harvest meditates a mixed harvesting season for the Union.

A reduction according to EU farmers' group Copa-Cogeca to its estimate of this year's EU grain harvest meditates a mixed harvesting season for the Union. Whereas totals in a certain number of countries have been stymied from poor summer weather, elsewhere production has ricocheted strongly. As a function of quality as well as quantity, marketing landscapes for the year ahead are highly varied.

Cope-Cogeca has now pared its estimate for the total lop down 3 million tonnes to 207mt (see tables onward pages M/3-M/4). The reduction thinks the damage wreaked by untimely heavy rains and multitudes over the summer. ...