Germany: Lowest wheat harvest since the early 1990s

Published Aug 22, 2024

Tridge summary

In 2024, North Rhine-Westphalia experienced a significant decline in wheat production, harvesting nearly 1.5 million tons, which is a 27% decrease from the previous year due to adverse weather and reduced cultivation areas. The total grain harvest, excluding grain corn, was 3.03 million tons, with wheat making up 49%. Winter wheat saw a 29.3% drop, while summer wheat surged by 432.4%. Other grains like rye and winter meslin decreased by 33%, barley by 9.9%, and triticale by 36.7%. Conversely, oat harvests increased by 61.5% owing to expanded cultivation and higher yield per hectare.

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08/22/2024 | 11:05:00 | ID: 39884 | Department: Agriculture | Plant Düsseldorf (agrar-PR) - According to preliminary results, almost 1.5 million tons of wheat were harvested in 2024. This means that the wheat harvest is around 27 percent lower than in 2023. In 2024, 3.03 million tons of grain (excluding grain corn) were harvested in North Rhine-Westphalia. Almost half of this (49.0 percent) was wheat, at 1.49 million tons. As Information and Technology North Rhine-Westphalia, the state statistical office, reports based on preliminary results, 26.9 percent less wheat was harvested than in 2023. The area under cultivation for wheat was 210,400 hectares, 15.5 percent smaller than in the previous year. Due to the poor weather conditions during this year's growing season, the yield per hectare fell by 13.6 percent to 7.1 tonnes. This is the lowest yield per hectare since the early 1990s.A third less winter wheat, but five times more spring wheatFor winter wheat, which is still the most ...

Source: Agrar