German Wheat Seen Avoiding Flooding Damage as Strawberries Soak
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Wheat and barley crops in southeast Germany will probably avoid damage from rain and flooding as strawberries and asparagus growers face losses from inundated fields, analysts and farm groups said.
Central Europe has been hit by floods after wet weather this weekend swelled rivers, halting shipping on the upper Rhine River and the Danube. Southern Bavaria and most of Saxony received 50 to 125 millimeters (2-4.9 inches) of rain in the past two days, as much as in the entire previous three months, while the southeast of Bavaria got 125 to 250 millimeters, data from weather office Deutscher Wetterdienst show.