# A Tough Season: Factors Behind France’s 2024 Winter Wheat Yield Decline - Terra Modeling Services

> Agreste data show France's 2024 soft wheat production about 23% below the five-year average, with yields among the three lowest in 40 years. Heavy rain during the 2023 sowing period delayed or prevented planting in northern France.

- Date: 2024-09-04 · published 2024-09-04T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: weather · region France · magnitude medium
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/28263-a-tough-season-factors-behind-france-s-2024-winter-wheat-yield-decline-terra
- Commodities: [Wheat (SRW)](https://feedsoft.ai/c/WHEAT.md)

## Why it matters

Confirmed structural shortfall in France's main wheat region supports EU and world wheat prices and reduces feed wheat availability.

## Read by commodity

- WHEAT: bullish ▲

## Similar past events

| Commodity | Date | Event | 5-day % | 20-day % |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| WHEAT | 2018-02-13 | [Winter crop harvest survives tough season, but summer yields at risk  \| Farm Online \| ACT](https://feedsoft.ai/events/66465-winter-crop-harvest-survives-tough-season-but-summer-yields-at-risk-farm-online.md) | -0.7% | +1.7% |
| WHEAT | 2023-12-13 | [France sees fall in winter wheat and barley sowing after rain](https://feedsoft.ai/events/32653-france-sees-fall-in-winter-wheat-and-barley-sowing-after-rain.md) | +1.9% | +2.9% |
| WHEAT | 2019-03-12 | [Wheat Futures Climb Most Since August as Texas Ratings Decline](https://feedsoft.ai/events/10668-wheat-futures-climb-most-since-august-as-texas-ratings-decline.md) | +3.6% | +2.6% |
| WHEAT | 2020-08-07 | [France: French wheat crop down almost 25 percent and wheat exports projected to decline \| USDA Foreign Agricultural Service](https://feedsoft.ai/events/51568-france-french-wheat-crop-down-almost-25-percent-and-wheat-exports-projected-to.md) | -1.3% | -0.1% |
| WHEAT | 2019-05-21 | [Wheat prices rise after slowest US maize planting season - Farmers Weekly](https://feedsoft.ai/events/5635-wheat-prices-rise-after-slowest-us-maize-planting-season-farmers-weekly.md) | -13.2% | -6.0% |

## Sources

- terra-ms.com: https://terra-ms.com/2024-france-wheat/

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