# La Niña Rains Bring Relief to Australian Wheat

> ABARES projects Australian wheat production will rise 11.8% in 2018/19 to 23.7 million tonnes after La Niña rains reached the northeastern coast. Last year's dry conditions had hurt yields.

- Date: 2018-03-06 · published 2018-03-06T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: weather · region Australia · magnitude medium
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/65929-la-nina-rains-bring-relief-to-australian-wheat
- Commodities: [Wheat (SRW)](https://feedsoft.ai/c/WHEAT.md)

## Why it matters

A larger Australian wheat crop adds export supply and would ease upward pressure on global wheat prices. The effect on feed-grade wheat availability is bearish.

## Read by commodity

- WHEAT: bearish ▼

## Similar past events

| Commodity | Date | Event | 5-day % | 20-day % |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| WHEAT | 2020-10-07 | [La Niña's Mixed Blessing: For Australia, a 90% Jump in Wheat Production](https://feedsoft.ai/events/50566-la-nina-s-mixed-blessing-for-australia-a-90-jump-in-wheat-production.md) | +0.4% | -0.1% |
| WHEAT | 2023-10-23 | [Rainfall lifts Australia’s wheat harvest by several million tons](https://feedsoft.ai/events/33573-rainfall-lifts-australia-s-wheat-harvest-by-several-million-tons.md) | -2.5% | -4.8% |
| WHEAT | 2025-08-07 | [Optimism increasing in Australian wheat market, amid July rains - Fastmarkets](https://feedsoft.ai/events/23264-optimism-increasing-in-australian-wheat-market-amid-july-rains-fastmarkets.md) | -0.8% | +0.5% |
| WHEAT | 2020-07-16 | [Australian farmers prepare to harvest large wheat crop](https://feedsoft.ai/events/52069-australian-farmers-prepare-to-harvest-large-wheat-crop.md) | -0.0% | -2.6% |
| WHEAT | 2024-04-09 | [Australia to increase wheat and barley crops](https://feedsoft.ai/events/30666-australia-to-increase-wheat-and-barley-crops.md) | -0.6% | -0.3% |

## Sources

- gro-intelligence.com: https://www.gro-intelligence.com/insights/australia-wheat-production-rainfall

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