Field crops and grassland Field crops

Acreage of important crops in Germany1
Selected cropsAcreage 20242Expected acreage for harvest 20253percentage change
1,000 ha%
1: Excluding city states.
2: Land use survey 2025.
3: Crop production reports: field crops and grassland.
The information on the expected acreages is based on messages of a limited number of harvesting and operating rapporteurs in the federal states from mid-April 2025. The results represent preliminary trends.
Winter cereals
Winter wheat2,480.42,783.0 12.2
Rye and mixed winter cereals 534.9 529.2- 1.1
Winter barley1,298.41,216.0- 6.4
Triticale 265.3 265.8 0.2
Summer cereals
Summer wheat 84.7 61.8- 27.0
Summer barley 360.6 334.2- 7.3
Oats 156.0 183.3 17.6
Grain maize/maize to ripen fully (including corn cob mix) 498.4 484.5- 2.8
Silage maize/green maize2,047.61,937.4- 5.4
Winter rape1,085.11,100.9 1.5
Potatoes 282.2 295.7 4.8
Sugar beets 437.2 408.5- 6.6
Field peas (without fresh peas) 129.2 139.1 7.6
Field beans 61.5 74.6 21.2

As at 19 May 2025

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