Agriculture - Dryness and Heat: Farmers' Association Presents Harvest Balance 2026
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Extreme heat and little rain reduce the harvest this year in Germany. Especially in the case of cereals and potatoes, farmers fear a poor yield.
In many fields there was too little rain and sometimes extreme temperatures for weeks - this is the case for the harvest.The combine harvesters now collected significantly less, as the industry has determined.Due to long drought and heat, the German farmers took a significantly smaller harvest this summer.A lower than average grain quantity of 41.9 million tons is to be expected, as the German Farmers' Association reported.This would be seven pe…
The German Farmers' Association takes a sobering balance: heat and drought lead to poor harvests of cereals, rapeseed and autumn crops. In parts of southern Germany total failures are imminent.
Today, the German Farmers' Association presents its harvest balance sheet.
The German Farmers' Association (DBV) anticipates a below-average grain harvest of 41.9 million tons in its 2026 harvest report. This is seven percent less than the previous year (2025: 45.2 million tons), according to the report presented in Berlin on Tuesday. The yield across all grain types is nine percent lower than the previous year, at 68.9 dt/ha. Key factors were an excessively dry spring and a heat wave in the second half of June during …
In the last few days, two ministers of the current government have not arrived well at the weather with loose sayings on the affected citizens, who have to learn to deal with the heat and drought. Due to the too low rainfall and the increased temperatures, the soils dry out into deeper layers. And the smaller rivers dry up, named [...] Die Beitrag Heißsommer 2026, Part 2: Drought in inland waterways and agriculture first appeared on Leipziger Ze…
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