Ukraine supplied Germany with 28% more rapeseed in the first half of the season

In 2024, Germany harvested less rapeseed than in the previous year. Despite the reduction in domestic supplies, rapeseed imports in the first half of the 2024/25 season will remain lower than in the previous year, according to the German Oilseed and Grain Crops Promotion Union (UFOP). According to the Federal Statistical Office, in the first half of the 2024/25 MY, Germany imported about 3.1 million tons of rapeseed, which is 8% less than in the same period last year. Ukraine, as before, occupies a leading position in the list of countries of origin of imported rapeseed this season. The country supplied 1.3 million tons of rapeseed to the German market, which is about 28% more than in the same period last year. According to Agrarmarkt Informations-Gesellschaft, the pace of deliveries is likely to slow down in the second half of the marketing year, as Ukraine can only count on a harvest that will be about 21% smaller than the previous one. However, the main focus is on the second ...