# French soft wheat crop rating stable at nine-year low - Markets - Business Recorder

> French soft wheat ratings held at 56% good or excellent for the week to June 1, unchanged from the prior week and down from 80% a year earlier. This is the lowest seasonal score since 2011. Winter barley was also stable at 52%, and soft wheat development ran 12 days ahead of average.

- Date: 2020-06-05 · published 2020-06-05T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: weather · region France · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/52549-french-soft-wheat-crop-rating-stable-at-nine-year-low-markets-business-recorder
- Commodities: [Wheat (SRW)](https://feedsoft.ai/c/WHEAT.md), [Barley](https://feedsoft.ai/c/BARLEY.md)

## Why it matters

Persistently weak French wheat ratings after a dry spring point to a smaller EU harvest, supporting wheat and feed grain prices.

## Read by commodity

- WHEAT: bullish ▲
- BARLEY: bullish ▲

## Similar past events

| Commodity | Date | Event | 5-day % | 20-day % |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| WHEAT | 2024-07-13 | [French soft wheat harvest slow and crop rating slips - Markets - Business Recorder](https://feedsoft.ai/events/29188-french-soft-wheat-harvest-slow-and-crop-rating-slips-markets-business-recorder.md) | -3.2% | -2.3% |
| WHEAT | 2024-07-05 | [French soft wheat yield seen 11% below 10-year average - Markets - Business Recorder](https://feedsoft.ai/events/29189-french-soft-wheat-yield-seen-11-below-10-year-average-markets-business-recorder.md) | +9.4% | +1.3% |
| WHEAT | 2020-06-12 | [French wheat crop stable for second week after punishing spring - Markets - Business Recorder](https://feedsoft.ai/events/52548-french-wheat-crop-stable-for-second-week-after-punishing-spring-markets.md) | -1.3% | -4.6% |
| WHEAT | 2021-09-04 | [Late-running French soft wheat harvest almost complete - Markets - Business Recorder](https://feedsoft.ai/events/45010-late-running-french-soft-wheat-harvest-almost-complete-markets-business-recorder.md) | +0.4% | +1.8% |
| WHEAT | 2021-08-28 | [French soft wheat harvest not completed - Markets - Business Recorder](https://feedsoft.ai/events/45506-french-soft-wheat-harvest-not-completed-markets-business-recorder.md) | +0.2% | +0.5% |

## Sources

- brecorder.com: https://www.brecorder.com/news/1001827

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