The worst cereal harvest in the last three decades where Accoe forecasts a 45.3% drop in production and especially yields, in Spain

Estimates from the Spanish Grain and Oilseed Trade Association (Accoe) for the 2023 autumn-winter cereal harvest forecast a notable drop in production compared to last 2022, which already showed final quantities well below the half. On a national scale, a drop is observed not only in production, which would be around 45.33% on average, but also in very significant average yields, with 1,530 kg/ha compared to 2,430 kg/ha last season. and at 3,320 kg/ha in 2021. Expectations indicate that the final production will be by far the worst in the last three decades, the negative record being even lower than the record levels of 1995 and 2015, years in which they barely exceeded 11 million tons. In detail, by crops, soft wheat will reach 3.1 Mt; in barley 3.8 Mt; in durum wheat 363,124 tons; in oats 307,818 tons; rye 122,008 and triticale 255,736 tons. However, with large areas of the Peninsula without production -or marginal-, the rains at the end of May, although unequal in location and ...