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In the EU it seems weather and leaving more land uncultivated. So in some ways a planned price increase by lowering production.

https://www.world-grain.com/articles/13660-usda-eu-grain-out...

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The article you linked says that they had difficulty planting because of weather conditions - that doesn't seem planned, or in any way related to modern monetary theory.

With both France and the UK each projected to see a more than a 5-million-tonne reduction in their 2020-21 wheat crops, EU wheat output is forecast to fall by nearly 11 million tonnes year-on-year to 144 million tonnes due to a 700,000-hectare decrease in planted area.

That’s seems like they are removing land from production unless I understand that wrong.

I could be reading it wrong, but based on this:

> The European Union’s grain output in 2020-21 is forecast to decline by 3% over the previous year due to extremely challenging planting conditions

My understanding is that they cannot plant due to the weather conditions.

Looks like land abandonment is a growing concern https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/publication/eur-scientific-and-t...

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