# Experts have lowered the forecast for the soft wheat harvest in the EU

> Refinitiv analysts lowered their EU soft wheat forecast for 2024-2025 to 125.6 million tons, more than 2 million tons below the current season. The cut is attributed to lower-than-expected French wheat acreage caused by excessive rainfall that hampered fieldwork.

- Date: 2024-01-02 · published 2024-01-02T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: report · region EU · magnitude medium
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/32067-experts-have-lowered-the-forecast-for-the-soft-wheat-harvest-in-the-eu
- Commodities: [Wheat (SRW)](https://feedsoft.ai/c/WHEAT.md)

## Why it matters

The lower EU soft wheat outlook tightens expected export supplies and supports wheat prices, which matters for feed buyers pricing wheat as a corn substitute.

## Read by commodity

- WHEAT: bullish ▲

## Similar past events

| Commodity | Date | Event | 5-day % | 20-day % |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| WHEAT | 2024-09-19 | [France lowers soft wheat harvest and export forecasts](https://feedsoft.ai/events/28264-france-lowers-soft-wheat-harvest-and-export-forecasts.md) | +11.4% | +5.6% |
| WHEAT | 2026-07-21 | [The forecast for the soft wheat harvest in France has been reduced to 30.8 million tons.](https://feedsoft.ai/events/18285-the-forecast-for-the-soft-wheat-harvest-in-france-has-been-reduced-to-30-8.md) | -1.8% | +2.8% |
| WHEAT | 2024-07-10 | [France expects lowest wheat harvest in 4 years](https://feedsoft.ai/events/29187-france-expects-lowest-wheat-harvest-in-4-years.md) | -4.1% | -2.7% |
| WHEAT | 2024-06-25 | [MARS lowered yield forecasts for wheat, corn and rapeseed for the EU](https://feedsoft.ai/events/29697-mars-lowered-yield-forecasts-for-wheat-corn-and-rapeseed-for-the-eu.md) | -2.1% | +4.0% |
| WHEAT | 2020-06-25 | [EU sharply cuts soft wheat harvest forecast again - Markets - Business Recorder](https://feedsoft.ai/events/52547-eu-sharply-cuts-soft-wheat-harvest-forecast-again-markets-business-recorder.md) | +0.8% | -5.4% |

## Sources

- tridge.com: https://www.tridge.com/ko/news/experts-have-lowered-the-forecast-for-the-soft-whe

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