According to estimates made at the end of July, the malting barley crop in Germany should drop by 9% in 2003. The table below, gives the figures for main German regions.

	Crop, thousand tonnes		Protein %		Collect malting barley, thousand tonnes
	2002	2003	2002	2003	2002	2003
Bayern	630	620	10.2	12	500	300
Baden-Württemberg	375	390	11	11.5	250	250
Thüringen	238	300	11.5	11.88	180	200
Rheinland	290	256	10.9	11.4	270	230
Sachsen	155	225	11	10.5-11.5	125	180
Total	2,063	2,215			1,626	1,476

05 August, 2003