Technical sales, the world's good supply and expected record harvests in Argentina and Australia could close the wheat prices with losses on Friday in Chicago. The weekly U.S. export sales were 451.300 tons of U.S. wheat for the marketing year 2016/17 in line with market expectations, for the marketing year 2017/18 you exceeded expectations. The USDA estimated the U.S. wheat crop 2017 / 18 to 1,837 billion bushels versus 2.310 billion bushels in 2016/17. 2017/18 U.S. wheat end stocks are estimated at 905 million bushels versus 1,139 million bushels in 2016/17. At the hour the eCBoT is slightly weaker. On the Euronext in Paris, could keep the Weizenfutures despite the negative requirements from overseas is quite good and closed mixed. In Hamburg the standard wheat premiums 12% remained protein content for delivery in March unchanged at €4,00 on Euronext Mai 17. The French agricultural consultancy FranceAgriMer reports that 93% of French winter wheat stocks by 20 February were in good to excellent Constitution. In the previous week, 92% of stocks received the highest rating, at the same time in the previous year, there were 94% of stocks.
