Heavy rains threaten wheat and rapeseed production

Heavy rain and saturated soil are threatening to reduce wheat and rapeseed production in western Europe this year with the most serious problems in Britain, crop analysts said.

The outlook in top producer France is also deteriorating.

“There are an awful lot of crops out there that are still under water, lots of patches of waterlogging and lots of very slow growing crops,” analyst Susan Twining of crop consultants ADAS said, referring to conditions in Britain, the third-largest wheat producer in the EU.