The article describes harvest and yield details of the German cereals season 2008. All federal states of Germany are covered and all cereals including milling, feed, industrial and grain maize, but excluding silage and corn-cob-mix maize. In 2008, the total tonnage increased from 23% to 49 million tonnes. The highest yield increases, compared to the poor year 2007, were reported from the northern states, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Niedersachsen, Schleswig-Holstein and Nordrhein-Westfalen. Average winter wheat yields were 8.1 t/ha, winter barley 6.6 t/ha and triticale 6.0 t/ha. Spring barley was 4.9 t/ha and oats only 4.6 t/ha. Because of the large quantities, enough good quality milling wheat will be available. An outlook on the EU cereal harvest, the global and USA harvests in 2008 are given at the end of the paper.
