# Australian winter crops poised for strong year | World Grain

> ABARES projects Australian winter crop production to fall 8% year on year to 55.6Mt in 2025-26, which would still be the sixth-highest on record. Wheat is forecast at 30.6Mt and barley at 12.8Mt, with dry conditions persisting in the southeast.

- Date: 2025-06-05 · published 2025-06-05T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: report · region Australia · magnitude medium
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/24168-australian-winter-crops-poised-for-strong-year-world-grain
- Commodities: [Wheat (SRW)](https://feedsoft.ai/c/WHEAT.md), [Barley](https://feedsoft.ai/c/BARLEY.md)

## Why it matters

Lower Australian wheat and barley supplies reduce export availability, which supports global feed grain prices, though the crop remains above average.

## Read by commodity

- WHEAT: bullish ▲
- BARLEY: bullish ▲

## Similar past events

| Commodity | Date | Event | 5-day % | 20-day % |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| WHEAT | 2023-12-06 | [Australian winter crops lag from previous year \| World Grain](https://feedsoft.ai/events/32665-australian-winter-crops-lag-from-previous-year-world-grain.md) | -3.5% | +1.1% |
| WHEAT | 2025-04-29 | [Australia’s grain crops forecast upbeat \| World Grain](https://feedsoft.ai/events/25088-australia-s-grain-crops-forecast-upbeat-world-grain.md) | +2.1% | -2.8% |
| WHEAT | 2026-06-02 | [Australia’s 2026-27 winter crop seen slipping \| World Grain](https://feedsoft.ai/events/18773-australia-s-2026-27-winter-crop-seen-slipping-world-grain.md) | -0.6% | +1.3% |
| WHEAT | 2024-01-23 | [Focus on Australia \| World Grain](https://feedsoft.ai/events/32084-focus-on-australia-world-grain.md) | -0.1% | -5.5% |
| WHEAT | 2017-12-04 | [Australian grain crops forecast lower in 2017-18 \| World-grain.com \| December 04, 2017 14:05 \| World Grain](https://feedsoft.ai/events/67430-australian-grain-crops-forecast-lower-in-2017-18-world-grain-com-december-04.md) | +2.7% | +0.6% |

## Sources

- world-grain.com: https://www.world-grain.com/articles/21481-australian-winter-crops-poised-for-strong-year

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