Germany's winter wheat acreage for the crop by 2015 exceeds the area of the previous year increased by 3.0% and is estimated by the Federal Statistical Office on 3.25 million hectares (December forecast: + 2.8%). The area under cultivation for winter barley to cattle feeding expanded by 3.2% on 1.26 million hectares, so the Federal Statistical Office.
Summer cereals (including spring wheat, spring barley, oats) increased the acreage by 3.9% to 547,000 hectares of maize by 0.2% to 482.000 acres.
6.4%, the acreage for canola was reduced to 1.30 million hectares in Germany.
Germany is the second largest producer and exporter of wheat, and the largest producer of rapeseed in the European Union.
