Miller Magazine Issue: 120 December 2019

GERMANY 91 MILLER / DECEMBER 2019 700+ Delegates 500+ Companies 50+ Countries X V I I I N T E R N A T I O N A L C O N F E R E N C E PREMIERE EVENT FOR THE GLOBAL LEADERS OF GRAIN AND OILSEED INDUSTRY NEW GLOBAL RULES OF 20’s April 22-23, 2020 INTERCONTINENTAL, KYIV, UKRAINE REGISTRATION www.ukragroconsult.com CONTACTS conference@ukragroconsult.org Tel/Fax +38 (044) 364 5585 GENERAL SPONSOR ORGANIZER SUPPORTED BY (three quarters). Germany’s agricultural sector now accounts for nearly 20% of its sales revenue through agricultural exports. Food exports account for about 5% of the country’s total exports, and imports 7% of total imports. AMONG THE TOP PRODUCERS OF GRAIN IN EU Germany is among the top producers of grain in the EU with 45.6 million tonnes of harvested produc- tion in 2017. Most of Germany’s cereal production is made up by wheat and spelt (54%), followed by barley (24%), maize and corn-cob-mix (10%). Germany’s vast agricultural production makes it a net exporter of grain. Even though in terms of volume, Germany’s production of grain has declined by 4.6% over the past 5 years, its exports have increased by 14%, but imports decreased by 15.7 %. This might indicate on a slight reduction in domestic consump- tion. Over the past 5 years, Germany’s export value of grain declined by 32%, despite increasing export volumes. The situation can be explained with the fact that over the past 5 years, the agricultural commodity price of grain has severely dropped. In 2017, grain production in Germany was 45.6 million tonnes. Germany’s total grain production for 2018 at 35.6 million tonnes. This was 26% below the country’s five-year average. Germany is the European Union’s second-largest wheat producer after France and for many years the EU’s largest producer of rape- seed, Europe’s main oilseed for edible oil and bio- diesel production. In 2018, wheat production for Ger- many was 20.2 million tonnes. Germany will produce a larger wheat harvest this year despite the impact of an early summer heatwave followed by repeated rain. German authorities expect over 23 million tonnes of wheat, up 13.7 percent from 2018’s drought-hit crop. After last summer’s drought, German grains this summer also suffered from a heatwave that saw record temperatures in much of western Europe in late July, while repeated rain, especially in northern and eastern Germany, delayed harvesting. The harvest of winter barley, largely used for animal