World Agrinews

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is expected to trim its forecast for the 2010-11 U.S. winter wheat crop from last month, with analysts projecting a drop in hard red winter wheat production.

China’s corn production this year may increase 2.5 percent from 2009 to 168 million metric tons as farmers boost plantings, the China National Grain & Oils Information Center said.

The U.S. corn crop is expected to continue getting larger as farmers produce less wheat and soybeans, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said Tuesday.

U.S. wheat farmers are expected to produce a smaller crop this year, but they are also forecast to start out the 2010-11 marketing year with large beginning stocks and finish with even larger ending stocks, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said Tuesday.