
French soft wheat sowing reached 93% of planned area, against 88% last year and 82% on the five-year average. Winter barley sowing was 96% complete, while crop conditions slipped slightly, with 94% of areas rated good to very good versus 96% previously.
Durum wheat sowing rose to 70% from 24% a month earlier.
Sowing progress is ahead of normal and crop ratings are still high, which supports expectations of a sound French harvest and limits upside for European wheat prices.
After 406 past neutral report events, Wheat (SRW) moved a median -0.2% over 5 sessions (47% higher; middle half -1.6% to +1.5%), and +0.0% over 20.
Not enough comparable past events yet for a historical read.
Moves of each commodity's benchmark from the last close before the event. Historical reads pool past events of the same kind; they describe what happened, not what will. Not investment advice.