The climate crisis is making weather conditions more uncertain – in Germany, this jeopardizes „entire harvests depending on the region.“ This is according to the German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL) on the occasion of the presentation of the preliminary official harvest report 2024. A wet autumn, a „record warm spring in 2024 with late frosts, flooding in many places and a wet summer with numerous severe storms“ have reduced crop yields in Germany.