Germany increases rapeseed imports despite large harvest

In the 2022/23 agricultural year, Germany imported about 5.74 million tons of rapeseed. This is 2% more than in the previous marketing season, although the rapeseed crop in 2022 was more abundant than a year earlier. Australia remained the number one supplier country, supplying 1.4 million tonnes. A year earlier, Germany received about 12,000 tons more. Belgium delivered about 323,000 tons to German oil mills and traders, despite a national harvest of just 32,000 tons. As in previous years, Ukrainian goods were likely to account for the largest share of these shipments, as Ghent is the delivery point for contracted goods to the Paris Stock Exchange. From there the goods are delivered directly to the Rhine River. Unlike previous marketing years, imports from the Netherlands did not play any significant role in 2022/23. France shipped about 1.1 million tons of rapeseed to Germany, about 388,000 tons more than a year earlier. This tonnage was probably actually produced in France. In ...