Germany with slight growth in autumn sowing in 2025.

At the end of the year, Germany's Ministry of Agriculture and Food reported the autumn sowing, whose statistics, like the rest of the EU countries, showed a slight increase in terms of main crops. The latest bulletin from the agency shows that in the autumn of 2025, farms in Germany sowed winter cereals on 5 million hectares, or 50 million decares of arable land. Compared to the autumn of 2024, this autumn's sown fields are 638,000 decares more, or the growth is 1.3 percent. Traditionally, in addition to winter wheat and barley, rye and winter mixed cereals, as well as wheat-rye hybrid triticale, are sown in Germany. There is a slight change in winter wheat and rye, an increase also in winter barley and rapeseed. Winter wheat, the most important cereal crop in Germany by area, occupies 2.9 million hectares, or 29 million decares. This means that the sown area remains almost unchanged compared to 2025 (+8,900 hectares or +0.3%). The area sown with winter barley for the 2026 harvest ...