HAMBURG: Germany’s 2021 wheat crop of all types will increase slightly by 0.9% on the year to 22.34 million tonnes, the country’s association of farm cooperatives said in its first harvest estimate on Tuesday.
The association forecast Germany’s 2021 winter rapeseed crop will record a small fall of 0.7% from last summer’s crop to 3.48 million tonnes.
German grains and rapeseed crops generally survived bitterly cold winter temperatures as low as minus 20 degrees Centigrade this winter, the association said.
Snow cover had protected crops from low temperatures, but frost damage is still possible, it said. In 2020 frosts in May had hit crops.
Germany is the European Union’s second largest wheat producer after France and in many years the EU’s largest producer of rapeseed, Europe’s main oilseed for edible oil and biodiesel production.
The winter barley crop, mostly used for animal feed, will increase 2.7% on the year to 9.07 million tonnes with yields expected to be positive, the association said.
The spring barley crop, used in beer and malt production, will fall 5.7% to 1.89 million tonnes following a reduction in sowed area.
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