The French Ministry of Agriculture has increased its estimate of the area under soft wheat and rapeseed for the 2023 harvest. The sown area under wheat is now estimated at 4.76 million hectares, which is 2% higher than in 2022 and 0.4% higher than the average over the past 5 years. The estimate of the sown area under rapeseed has been raised to 1.34 million hectares, which is 9% higher than last year and 11% above the annual average. The area under spring barley is estimated at 1.34 million hectares, and durum wheat at 233 thousand hectares.