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HAMBURG, July 7 (Reuters) – Germany’s wheat and rapeseed harvests are anticipated to extend in 2021 as rain helped crops get better from a sizzling, dry begin to the summer season, the affiliation of German farmers stated.
In addition to being the European Union’s second largest wheat producer after France, in most years Germany is the bloc’s largest producer of rapeseed, which is Europe’s predominant oilseed for edible oil, biodiesel and animal feed meal manufacturing.
Germany will harvest about 22.82 million tonnes of winter wheat in 2021, up 5% on the 12 months, the DBV affiliation stated in its first crop report on Wednesday.
Together with spring and laborious wheat, Germany’s whole wheat harvest of all sorts will attain about 23.13 million tonnes it stated. That is up about 4.5% on the 12 months.
Germany’s 2021 winter rapeseed harvest will rise 6% on the 12 months to round 3.71 million tonnes, the DBV stated.
“We anticipate a median harvest differing regionally,” DBV President Joachim Rukwied stated within the report.
After an preliminary sizzling begin to the summer season, crops had benefited from widespread rain previously two weeks, he stated, though in elements of north east Germany, latest sizzling and dry climate has brought on some crop injury.
“In lots of different areas farms predict an honest harvest,” Rukwied added.
The harvest of winter barley, typically used for animal feed, is predicted to rise 6% on the 12 months to round 9.34 million tonnes.
The harvest of spring barley, vital for malt and beer manufacturing, is predicted to fall 12% on the 12 months after diminished plantings to 1.75 million tonnes, the report stated.
The grain maize (corn) crop is predicted to fall 2% to three.93 million tonnes, partly due to a discount in sowed space.
(Reporting by Michael Hogan, modifying by Alexander Smith)
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