Germany & Austria: Malting barley yields remain around 50,000 tons in Germany, crop result is fair to good in Austria

The acreage of winter barley is in Germany apparently even larger than the first official estimate of 1.445 million ha. As analysts pointed out August 01, yields and quality are good, but the share of malting varieties remains around 50,000 tons. The harvest of spring barley started off well in the valleys of Rhine and Neckar in the Southwest, but everywhere else the crop disappointed. Low yields and poor calibration are general, in some parts, e.g. in Thuringia proteins are too high.

In Austria, the reported crop result is fair to good, yields and calibration are slightly below average, but moisture is very low and protein average.