Net offers to sell maize into European Union's intervention stores have dropped 60,810 tonnes, with the new total at 3.26 million tonnes, official data showed on Thursday. Net offers include all offers to sell grain into public intervention stores, minus offers rejected by the national grain body, mainly for technical reasons, or withdrawn by farmers.
Total grain offers were at 16.05 million tonnes, down 68,822 tonnes from last week, due also to a drop of 4,637 tonnes in wheat offers to 10.38 million tonnes and a fall of 3,375 tonnes in barley offers to 2.41 million, the data showed.
The period during which farmers can sell their grain into intervention stores closed in most EU countries on May 31 but the intervention season is longer in some northern countries such as Sweden.