# EU sunflower harvest to set record by bigger margin than thought - Grain Price News

> Strategie Grains raised its EU sunflower seed production forecast by 230,000 tonnes to 10.89 million tonnes, a record. Sowings were lifted to 4.79 million hectares on high prices, which remain about 48% above pre-war levels.

- Date: 2022-05-30 · published 2022-05-30T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: report · region EU · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/41521-eu-sunflower-harvest-to-set-record-by-bigger-margin-than-thought-grain-price
- Commodities: [Sunflower Meal](https://feedsoft.ai/c/SUNMEAL.md), [Soybean Oil](https://feedsoft.ai/c/SBO.md)

## Why it matters

A larger EU sunflower crop adds supply that could ease the tight sunflower oil and meal market, though record seed prices still support the complex.

## Read by commodity

- SBO: bearish ▼
- SUNMEAL: bearish ▼

## Similar past events

| Commodity | Date | Event | 5-day % | 20-day % |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| SBO | 2024-04-01 | [The Grain Council raised the forecast for the world sunflower harvest by 600 thousand tons](https://feedsoft.ai/events/30847-the-grain-council-raised-the-forecast-for-the-world-sunflower-harvest-by-600.md) | +0.2% | -5.4% |
| SBO | 2023-04-14 | [EU sunflower-seed output set to hit record level this year](https://feedsoft.ai/events/36521-eu-sunflower-seed-output-set-to-hit-record-level-this-year.md) | +1.0% | -3.8% |
| SBO | 2024-05-17 | [FNB News - Ukraine to remain world's largest exporter of sunflower oil though decline in processing \| FNB News](https://feedsoft.ai/events/30379-fnb-news-ukraine-to-remain-world-s-largest-exporter-of-sunflower-oil-though.md) | +1.6% | +2.7% |
| SBO | 2022-10-07 | [Turkey on pace for record sunflower seed crop \| World Grain](https://feedsoft.ai/events/39252-turkey-on-pace-for-record-sunflower-seed-crop-world-grain.md) | +1.8% | +7.7% |
| SBO | 2017-05-12 | [Ukraine could beat own record in sunflower oil exports](https://feedsoft.ai/events/71119-ukraine-could-beat-own-record-in-sunflower-oil-exports.md) | +0.5% | +0.1% |

## Sources

- grainpricenews.com: https://grainpricenews.com/2022/05/30/eu-sunflower-harvest-to-set-record-by-bigger-margin-than-thought/

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