Overview

• The Statistisches Bundesamt’s July forecast projects 1,009,000 tonnes of German apples in 2025, marking the first million-tonne crop since 2022.
• That apple total exceeds the ten-year average by 3.9 percent and surpasses the 2024 harvest by nearly 16 percent.
• Apples are grown on 32,700 hectares nationwide, with Baden-Württemberg and Niedersachsen accounting for 68.6 percent of production.
• German plum and prune growers anticipate 44,500 tonnes this year, 1.6 percent above the ten-year mean but with harvests down roughly 30 percent in Baden-Württemberg and up about 50 percent in Rheinland-Pfalz.
• Harvest data through mid-August have validated the initial national estimate, underscoring the robustness of this season’s yields.