More Damaged Wheat to Be Downgraded China's wheat crop damage is more severe than previously estimated because of the frost and rain during the growing period. This weather shrank the kernels in Henan which is the top wheat-producing province in China and accounts for more than 50 percent of the national output. Trucks were recently seen there piled with bags of wheat as they queued outside the state grain reserve warehouse, while farmers waited outside the building to sell damaged crops that they had been told were rejected. Farmers without good storage facilities accelerated the sales, particularly in the past week, because of the excessive rain that started mid-July. It is now projected that as much as 20 MMT or 16 percent of China'...