# France raises again its forecast for soft wheat production

> FranceAgriMer raised its 2017-18 French soft wheat forecast to 37.8 million tonnes from 36.8 million in August, up 37.1% on 2016. The rapeseed forecast rose to 5.5 million tonnes, and the corn estimate was unchanged at 12.75 million tonnes.

- Date: 2017-09-13 · published 2017-09-13T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: report · region France · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/68911-france-raises-again-its-forecast-for-soft-wheat-production
- Commodities: [Wheat (SRW)](https://feedsoft.ai/c/WHEAT.md)

## Why it matters

A larger French wheat crop adds exportable supply in a market already well supplied, which is bearish for wheat prices and eases feed-grain costs for buyers.

## Read by commodity

- WHEAT: bearish ▼

## Similar past events

| Commodity | Date | Event | 5-day % | 20-day % |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| WHEAT | 2025-09-17 | [France Updates Wheat and Corn Production Forecasts for 2025](https://feedsoft.ai/events/22802-france-updates-wheat-and-corn-production-forecasts-for-2025.md) | +0.4% | +1.3% |
| WHEAT | 2025-08-11 | [France raises wheat harvest forecast but expects corn production to decline](https://feedsoft.ai/events/23272-france-raises-wheat-harvest-forecast-but-expects-corn-production-to-decline.md) | -1.0% | +0.2% |
| WHEAT | 2024-12-03 | [Australia raises wheat production forecast by 60,000 tons](https://feedsoft.ai/events/26917-australia-raises-wheat-production-forecast-by-60-000-tons.md) | +1.1% | +2.7% |
| WHEAT | 2021-11-09 | [France raises crop forecasts for wheat, maize and](https://feedsoft.ai/events/43990-france-raises-crop-forecasts-for-wheat-maize-and.md) | +1.8% | +0.7% |
| WHEAT | 2024-09-03 | [Australia raises wheat production forecast by 2.7 mln tons](https://feedsoft.ai/events/28282-australia-raises-wheat-production-forecast-by-2-7-mln-tons.md) | +1.6% | +11.6% |

## Sources

- grainsprices.com: https://grainsprices.com/article/13170

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