German farmers plant less winter wheat, more rapeseed for 2020 crop

HAMBURG (Reuters) - - Germany's winter wheat sown area for the 2020 harvest has been reduced by 7% on the year to about 2.84 million hectares, the national statistics office said on Friday in a crop estimate.Farmers had turned to other crops such as rapeseed, data from the agency said.German winter rapeseed sowings for the 2020 crop have been expanded by 11.9% on the year to around 953,000 hectares. The rapeseed area for Germany's 2019 crop had been cut by dry weather in the planting season..