The acreage of malting barley has increased again in Bavaria, Germany

More malting barley can be grown in Bavaria again, since the decrease in the area planted for years has stopped and higher figures have already been reported this year. The area sown for malting barley in Bavaria has recently decreased sharply, but now you can see more barley fields again, and there are very current reasons for this. According to data from the Bavarian Farmers' Association (BBV), malting barley is grown on about 90,000 hectares. Last year, this figure was only 81,600 hectares. However, the area sown this year is still below the size of the area sown in 2019, when malting barley was grown on more than 100,000 hectares in southern Germany. In the 1980s, Bavarian farmers still cultivated spring barley on more than 300,000 hectares. The Free State of Bavaria is considered a true beer country - for example, the Oktoberfest event and its beers are world-famous, and Upper Franconia is probably home to a unique density of breweries. "Currently, malting barley is in good ...