The harvest in France, according to the Ministry of agriculture of the country, will fall this year by 21% and amount to 10.2 million tonnes. In Germany, according to the Association of agricultural cooperatives Deutscher Raiffeisenverband, the expected harvest of 8.8 million tons.

"The poor harvest of barley is not only French, but also German problem. The rise in prices (barley - ed.) is fully shifted to the brewery. It cannot be otherwise, because malt production brings a very small margin", — said the head of the company-manufacturer of beer malt Avangard Malz.

In addition to the impact that the rain caused the volume of the barley harvest, they damaged and its quality. First, if the price of barley increased from 190,5 €/ton early in the season to 210,75 €/t, according to the analytical center of Commodity3, August 3, they began to decline and amounted to 201,5 €/t.