Stuttgart (dpa / lsw) - Despite the heat and drought in spring, a slightly better grain harvest is expected in Baden-Württemberg. According to a forecast, the harvest (excluding grain maize) in the southwest is expected to reach almost 2.8 million tons this year, as the State Statistical Office announced on Friday in Stuttgart. It will thus clearly exceed the previous year's yield of 2.6 million tons.
According to the announcement, a harvest volume of 0.59 million tons is expected for winter barley with unchanged acreage. A yield of a good 1.5 million tons is forecast for the most important type of grain, winter wheat. There is likely to be a significantly larger harvest of spring barley than in the previous year. The background is, among other things, a noticeably expanded acreage. A quantity of 0.34 million tons is expected.
A decline is expected for rye and a higher yield for winter oilseed rape.
