Excerpt from Foreign Crops and Markets, Vol. 59: December 12, 1949 World barley production, new placed at million bushels, is 95 percent of both the prewar average and of last year's outturn. That total is about 30 million bushels less than the previous world estimate largely because of a drop in China's official estimate. Oats production was increased by 30 million bushels in Europe, where improved conditions, especially in Germany, brought the harvest above the expected level. Changes in other areas were small. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.