According to the FranceAgriMer monitoring, 82% of the winter wheat plantings in good and excellent condition in France on May 9, up from 89% a week earlier. At the same time last year as of the reporting date, that figure was 79%.
It is reported that the state of the winter and spring barley deteriorated significantly - the proportion of good and excellent condition fell from 86% to 79% and from 88% to 76% respectively in one week.
In addition, experts are reporting that the corn seed campaign in the country, which at that time was carried out at 92% of the plan (+ 8% per week), which is slightly worse than a year earlier (95%).