HAMBURG, Germany (Reuters) — Germany’s wheat crop will fall 1.7 percent on the year to 26.10 million tonnes but will still reach a good average, says the country’s association of farm co-operatives.
As well, it expects the country’s winter rapeseed crop to increase .7 percent to 5.04 million tonnes.
Wheat acreage hardly changed from last year at 8.11 million acres, but yields are likely to be 3.19 tonnes an acre, slightly down from last year’s exceptionally high yields of 3.24 tonnes an acre.
“This is still a good crop and approaches last year’s excellent harvest,” one German trader said.
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Germany is the European Union’s second largest wheat producer after France, and in most years is the EU’s largest producer of rapeseed, which is Europe’s main oilseed for edible oil and biodiesel production.
“The grain and rapeseed plants have come through the winter without significant damage,” the association said in its first harvest estimate.
“Plants were often in an above-average state of growth following the mild, growth-positive autumn weather but were able to withstand the cold weather in January. Light snow cover in many regions helped.”
Germany’s crop of winter barley, which is largely used for animal feed, is set to fall 2.1 percent on the year to 9.43 million tonnes, the association said. The spring barley crop, which is used for beer and malt production, will fall 1.2 percent to 1.97 million tonnes, party because of reduced seeding, it said.
The grain corn crop will increase 12.2 percent to 4.45 million tonnes, partly because of an increase in planted area and improved yields, it said.
