Austria: Grain harvest 2021 was only average

In 2021, Austria's farmers only brought in an average harvest of grain, including grain maize. As Statistics Austria recently finally reported, the total volume amounted to 5.30 million t. That was 7% down on the year before, but 2% up on the ten-year average. However, the results for straw grain and grain maize were very different. The threshing quantity without grain maize was 2.86 million tons. and was thus 12% below the previous year's result and 7% below the long-term average. Grain maize including seed maize, on the other hand, recorded a slight increase of 1% year-on-year at 2.43 million tons, while the ten-year average was exceeded by 13%. The main factor was the expansion of the corn acreage by 3%. The average yield, on the other hand, was almost the same as the previous year at 11.2 t/ha. The Vienna statisticians put the 2021 wheat harvest at 1.53 million tons. Compared to 2020, this was a minus of 8%. Soft wheat accounted for 1.35 million tons and spelled for 71,900 ...