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Germany: Only winter barley is convincing in Brandenburg

Germany
Published Aug 25, 2022

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Based on the second crop estimate in July 2022, Brandenburg's farmers are expecting a grain harvest (excluding grain maize and corn-cob mix) of 2.2 million tons. According to the Berlin-Brandenburg Statistics Office, that is a drop of more than 3 percent compared to the previous year, which was also bad.

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08/24/2022 | 12:06:00 | ID: 33897 | Department: Agriculture | plant Potsdam (agrar-PR) - Based on the second harvest estimate in July 2022, Brandenburg farmers are expecting a grain harvest (excluding grain maize and corn-cob mix) of 2.2 million tons. According to the Berlin-Brandenburg Statistics Office, this is in Compared to the previous year, which was also bad, a decline of more than 3 percent. Compared to the six-year average (2016 to 2021), the harvest is almost 9 percent lower. The sometimes extreme weather conditions with drought and strong sunshine were the same as in recent years and had a negative impact on yields. On a 2 percent reduced cereal acreage of 465,400 hectares, the yield of almost 48 quintals per hectare (dt/ha) is 2 percent below that of the previous year achieved in 2021. It exceeds the six-year average by 15 percent. As with cereals as a whole, the yields vary greatly from region to region. Among the Brandenburg districts, there was a range of 49 to 78 ...
Source: Agrar
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