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Date: February 14, 2022 42 million tonnes of cereals harvested in 2021

Farmers in Germany harvested 42 tonnes of cereals (including grain maize and corn cob mix) in 2021 according to final results of the special harvest and quality survey. This was a 2% decline on a year earlier. The yield per hectare was 70.0 …

Date: July 27, 2016 The plow dominates the tillage

In Germany plowing is the dominant process in the tillage. 53% of arable land (6.3 million hectares) was processed with the plow in the marketing year 2015/2016. Only 14% of holdings avoiding plowing completely. This makes the meaning of the plow use …

Date: July 27, 2016 Most of the dwellings in Germany consisted of 4 rooms

Based on the final results of the 2011 census of buildings and housing, the dwelling stock in 2016 was structured as follows: most of the dwellings in Germany (25%) consisted of 4 rooms. The percentage share of dwellings with 3 rooms was just under …

Date: July 27, 2016 19.5 trillion euro capital stock on a gross basis at the end of 2018

At the end of 2018, the replacement value of fixed assets available for production in the national economy amounted to Euro 19.5 trillion. In price adjusted terms, there were 10.0 % more fixed assets than 2010 and 1.3 % more than in 2017. The capital …

Date: July 27, 2016 Very high cherry yield expected for 2018

Due to the warm and dry spring, German farmers producing fruit for the market expect a very high cherry yield in 2018, that is, 60 100 tonnes.

Date: July 27, 2016 More than half of the farmers apply slurry to their land

Approximately 150,000 agricultural holdings spread liquid farm manure on their land in 2015, this means slurry, liquid manure or liquid fermentation residue from biogas installations. This refers to 55 % of all holdings in Germany.

Date: July 27, 2016 11 % of area under vegetable cultivation farmed organically in 2017

In 2017, the organically farmed area represented 11 % of the total area of vegetables grown outdoors in Germany. 13,700 hectares were farmed organically, which was an increase of 11 % on 2016. The harvested quantities of organic outdoor vegetables …

Press release No. 562 of 22 December 2022 Autumn sowing for 2023 harvest: areas under winter rape up 7.6%

In autumn 2022, agricultural holdings in Germany sowed winter rape on 1.2 million hectares of arable land for the coming 2023 harvest season. The area sown with winter rape exceeds the area cultivated with winter rape in May 2022 by 81,900 hectares …

Press release No. 557 of 21 December 2022 Pig population has dropped by 18.2% since 2020

On the reference date of 3 November 2022, 21.3 million pigs were kept in Germany, according to provisional results. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that the number of pigs decreased by 1.01 million, or 4.5%, compared with the …

Press release No. N 072 of 20 December 2022 Christmas facts

Whether it' a Norway spruce or Nordmann fir – for many people Christmas is not complete without a real Christmas tree. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that Christmas trees were grown on an area of 20,100 hectares outside the forests …