Showing posts with label crops. Show all posts
Showing posts with label crops. Show all posts

20070609

Golden crop of another sort


Fewer awns than on the one on the main blog.

Some statistics from 2000 from the Swiss agricultural unit. Update: try this new page here.

Out of 88,419 hectares used for human consumption:
Winter wheat Winterweizen 85.3%
Summer wheat Sommerweizen 10.2%
Rye Roggen 2.2%
Spelt Dinkel 2.0%
Emmer, Einkorn 0.2%
Mischel 0.1%

Out of 78,139 hectares used for animal feed:
Winter barley Wintergerste 45.9%
Corn Körnermais 27%
Triticale 16.5%
Oats Hafer 5.7%
Winter barley Sommergerste 4.5%
Mischel 0.4%

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