# COCERAL EU harvest estimates at 304 million tons market

> COCERAL estimates the 2017 EU cereal harvest at 304.4 million tonnes, below the European Commission's 313 million and above the COPA-COGECA figure of 296.6 million. COCERAL puts EU wheat at about 153.2 million tonnes. The estimates differ mainly on planted area and yield assumptions.

- Date: 2017-03-25 · published 2017-03-25T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: report · region EU · magnitude medium
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/71950-coceral-eu-harvest-estimates-at-304-million-tons-market
- Commodities: [Wheat (SRW)](https://feedsoft.ai/c/WHEAT.md), [Corn](https://feedsoft.ai/c/CORN.md), [Barley](https://feedsoft.ai/c/BARLEY.md)

## Why it matters

A harvest near 304 million tonnes is a normal, sizeable crop that reduces EU import needs and weighs on feed grain prices compared with last year's weak output.

## Read by commodity

- CORN: neutral
- WHEAT: bearish ▼
- BARLEY: neutral

## Similar past events

| Commodity | Date | Event | 5-day % | 20-day % |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| WHEAT | 2019-12-12 | [COCERAL estimates average EU grain harvest market](https://feedsoft.ai/events/55528-coceral-estimates-average-eu-grain-harvest-market.md) | +2.5% | +4.4% |
| WHEAT | 2025-12-01 | [Australia raises wheat harvest estimate by nearly two million tonnes - AgCanada](https://feedsoft.ai/events/21469-australia-raises-wheat-harvest-estimate-by-nearly-two-million-tonnes-agcanada.md) | +1.9% | +0.7% |
| WHEAT | 2021-05-12 | [Markets mixed on new crop estimates](https://feedsoft.ai/events/47043-markets-mixed-on-new-crop-estimates.md) | -1.5% | -4.7% |
| WHEAT | 2025-02-06 | [Australia harvested 2 million tons of wheat more than forecast in 2024/25 MY](https://feedsoft.ai/events/26019-australia-harvested-2-million-tons-of-wheat-more-than-forecast-in-2024-25-my.md) | -0.7% | -3.6% |
| WHEAT | 2025-07-16 | [French Ministry of Agriculture has estimated the current year’s wheat harvest at 32.6 mln tons](https://feedsoft.ai/events/23687-french-ministry-of-agriculture-has-estimated-the-current-year-s-wheat-harvest.md) | +1.6% | -1.2% |
| CORN | 2020-08-26 | [Coceral cuts EU grain harvest 2020 again market report](https://feedsoft.ai/events/51572-coceral-cuts-eu-grain-harvest-2020-again-market-report.md) | +1.5% | +7.0% |
| CORN | 2023-08-28 | [2022/23 Brazil Corn Estimate Unchanged at 133.0 Million Tons](https://feedsoft.ai/events/13629-2022-23-brazil-corn-estimate-unchanged-at-133-0-million-tons.md) | -1.3% | -8.5% |
| CORN | 2020-02-05 | [DATAGRO revises 2019/20 soybean harvest in Brazil to 122,90 million tons - Revista Cultivar](https://feedsoft.ai/events/54463-datagro-revises-2019-20-soybean-harvest-in-brazil-to-122-90-million-tons.md) | -1.1% | -0.3% |

## Sources

- zmp.de: https://www.zmp.de/en/futures/grains/news/market-report-coceral-eu-harvest-estimates-304-million-tons-2017-03-25

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