Germany: Malting barley crop expected to be larger but analysts still forecast imports of at least 1 mln tonnes

DRV forecasts Germany’s winter barley crop at 8.656 mln tonnes (from 12.37 mln ha x 7.0 tonnes), spring barley at 1.753 mln tonnes (0.327 mln ha x 5.36 tonnes), H. M. Gauger GmbH said in their June report.

The "Braugerstenverein" estimates 270 thousand ha of spring barley of malting varieties incl. 25 thousand ha planted before winter.

There are dry pockets in Germany, but the overall outlook is correct. Germany will harvest
a larger malting barley crop than last year, but will still need at least imports of 1.0 mln tonnes in 2022/23 to fill up the maltsters´ empty stores, the analysts said.

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