French soft wheat crop showing below-average protein, final survey shows
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PARIS, Sept 18 (Reuters) -Final quality results from this year's French soft wheat harvest showed 41% of the crop had an average protein content above the key level of 11.5%, compared to a five-year average of 58%, farm office FranceAgriMer said on Wednesday.
The national average for protein content in this year's crop was 11.4%, the office said without giving a comparison for recent years.
For test weights, another measure of milling quality, the survey conducted with crop institute Arvalis showed that 28% of the 2024 crop had test weights above the 76 kg/hl threshold against a five-year average of 75%.
Months of heavy rain since the autumn cut wheat planting and yields in France, the European Union's biggest grain producer.
The lower test weights were due to a lack of sun during the filling of the grains combined with regular rainfall during the harvest, FranceAgriMer said.
The survey also showed that 99% of this year's crop had Hagberg falling numbers, another milling specification, above 240 seconds, up from a five-year average of 87%.
Reporting by Sybille de La Hamaide; editing by Jason Neely, Kirsten Donovan
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