Overview

• Heavy July downpours have slowed Saxony’s grain harvest, with winter barley at roughly 60% completion and winter wheat under 5%.
• Moisture-related downgrades are triggering deductions on poor-quality grain in a market already beset by low prices.
• Early potato markets have collapsed, leaving growers like Heinz-Otto Walther holding unsold tubers in hopes of a price rebound.
• Farmers such as Dirk Liedmann are running GPS-equipped combines around the clock with 20-hour days to capitalize on brief dry intervals.
• Sensor-driven yield maps at estates like Staatsgut Grub are guiding variable-rate inputs as regional harvest progress varies ahead of autumn fieldwork.