# France Sees 10% Increase in Winter Soft Wheat Sowing Area for 2025 Harvest

> 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.

- Date: 2025-02-12 · published 2025-02-12T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: report · region France · magnitude medium
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/25978-france-sees-10-increase-in-winter-soft-wheat-sowing-area-for-2025-harvest
- Commodities: [Wheat (SRW)](https://feedsoft.ai/c/WHEAT.md)

## Why it matters

A larger French soft-wheat area points to higher 2025 EU supply, which is mildly bearish for wheat prices if yields hold up.

## Read by commodity

- WHEAT: bearish ▼

## Similar past events

| Commodity | Date | Event | 5-day % | 20-day % |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| WHEAT | 2024-12-19 | [France sees soft wheat sowing rebounding after rain relents](https://feedsoft.ai/events/26892-france-sees-soft-wheat-sowing-rebounding-after-rain-relents.md) | +1.7% | -0.3% |
| WHEAT | 2021-07-13 | [France Forecasts Increase In 2021 Soft Wheat Output \| ESM Magazine](https://feedsoft.ai/events/46021-france-forecasts-increase-in-2021-soft-wheat-output-esm-magazine.md) | +1.3% | -0.4% |
| WHEAT | 2017-07-21 | [Agritel: France's soft wheat harvest 2017 "generally](https://feedsoft.ai/events/69904-agritel-france-s-soft-wheat-harvest-2017-generally.md) | -2.7% | -0.3% |
| WHEAT | 2024-12-18 | [Area under winter wheat in France will amount to 4.51 mln ha](https://feedsoft.ai/events/26893-area-under-winter-wheat-in-france-will-amount-to-4-51-mln-ha.md) | +1.4% | -0.4% |
| WHEAT | 2025-04-17 | [France ups soft wheat area estimate](https://feedsoft.ai/events/25049-france-ups-soft-wheat-area-estimate.md) | +2.5% | +3.2% |

## Sources

- cropgpt.ai: https://cropgpt.ai/france-sees-10-increase-in-winter-soft-wheat-sowing-area-for-2025-harvest

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