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Citing the French Ministry of Agriculture, the article reports winter soft-wheat sowing area for 2025 up 10% to 4.57 million hectares, a 0.06 million hectare rise from December. It attributes the increase to excess moisture that caused crop failures in 2024.
A larger French soft-wheat area points to higher 2025 EU supply, which is mildly bearish for wheat prices if yields hold up.
After 1,006 past bearish report events, Wheat (SRW) moved a median +0.0% over 5 sessions (50% higher; middle half -1.6% to +1.8%), and +0.3% over 20.
Moves of each commodity's benchmark from the last close before the event. Historical reads pool past events of the same kind; they describe what happened, not what will. Not investment advice.