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HAMBURG, Aug 4 (Reuters) – The affiliation of German farmers DBV stated on Wednesday it has minimize its forecast of Germany’s 2021 winter wheat harvest to round 21 million tonnes from 22.82 million tonnes forecast in July after wet climate.
This is able to imply the winter wheat harvest can be little modified on the 2020 crop, the affiliation stated in a crop report.
Storms and torrential rain hit elements of west and south Germany in July, inflicting heavy lack of life and widespread flooding.
Work on Germany’s wheat and rapeseed harvest has been repeatedly interrupted by rain, the affiliation stated.
Germany is the European Union’s second largest wheat producer after France and in most years the EU’s largest grower of rapeseed, Europe’s major oilseed for edible oil, biodiesel and animal feed meal manufacturing.
In lots of areas, farmers are combating continued rain showers and might nearly solely snatch the wheat from fields throughout dry intervals, it stated.
“Yield prospects should even be corrected downwards,” stated DRV president Joachim Rukwied within the report.
The affiliation’s regional our bodies report that wheat crop yields may very well be as much as 15% decrease than hoped earlier this summer time.
However the winter barley crop, used for animal feed, is mostly full, the affiliation stated.
Extra rain is forecast in Germany into the weekend.
(Reporting by Michael Hogan, enhancing by Emelia Sithole-Matarise)
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