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Johannesburg - South Africa has slightly lowered its 2014 wheat output forecast because of a decrease in yields in the Western Cape to 1.76 million tons from 1.79 million tons previously, says the crop estimates committee.
Reuters reported earlier that France imported Lithuanian and British milling wheat in August to mix with its poor quality, rain-soaked crop. It wanted to reach quality required under contracts signed before the harvest, trade and industry sources said.
These unusual imports, the report said, were a new sign that the European Union's largest wheat producing and exporting country would struggle to meet international demand this season with a large share of its crop failing to live up to its traditional clients' criteria.
A ship carrying 27 500 tons of Lithuanian milling wheat, with a high protein level, had been offloaded in the port of Rouen.
