Use of grain for feed lessens in Germany

According to preliminary figures from the Federal Information Center for Agriculture (BZL), the domestic consumption of cereals fell by almost four million tons and amounted to around 39 million tons in the 2021/22 marketing year, according to a report from the Federal Institute for Agriculture and Food in Germany. Almost 54% of the grain is used as feed - that is 4.6 percentage points less than in the previous year. Almost 23% of grain consumption in Germany was accounted for by food production (+three percentage points), while around 18% (one percentage point less) went into industrial and energy use. Seeds and losses together amounted to almost 6%. In the 2021/22 marketing year, 20.9 million tons of grain were used in Germany and thus around 16% less for animal feed. Of these, around 6.6 million tons fell on wheat and 5.1 million tons each on barley and maize. The decline in the use of cereals for feed is due, among other things, to the reduced production of compound feed in ...