The International Grains Council last week increased its global
wheat production forecast to a record 743m tonnes, up 1 per cent from last year.
Not exact matches
Internal CBH
forecasting shows demand growth in Australia's contestable markets, the Middle East, the subcontinent and Asia, being outstripped by growth in global
wheat production led by the Black Sea and Argentina.
Wheat production in Russia and Ukraine has come from a low base to dominate world markets in recent years and is
forecast to continue growing well into the next decade.
Mr Gooday said the nation's
wheat and barley
production were both
forecast to be the second highest on record and canola
production to be the third highest.
In
forecasting the effect on
wheat production — one of the world's most important staple crops — the researchers tested 30 computer models against field experiments to establish the most likely scenario.