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Market briefing

Alfalfa / lucerne

Medicago sativa

Fodder Plants & Amenity GrassesCatch / Cover Crops
Estimated Market Range
€6.00 – €9.00/kg

Modelled merchant asking prices, excluding VAT; source dates vary. Not a current supplier quotation.

Market watch · As of

Trade unit value
€4.10/kg

Observed · 2024-12

Trade volume
945.82 t

Completed 2026-06

Current situation

Germany reports 2026 seed declarations. The latest customs unit value is from December 2024.

What to watch

  • New certified-lot availability
  • Current cultivar-specific offers

B2B view

Compare cultivar and lot quality; the old value is not a current quote.

Trade & value

Trade value
€3,022,469
Volume YoY
+8.88%

Trade unit value YoY

Observed · 2024-12

Trade unit value history — €/kg

€/kg4.200
2024-01
2024-02
2024-03
2024-04
2024-05
2024-06
2024-07
2024-08
2024-09
2024-10
2024-11
2024-12

Latest available: €4.10/kg · 2024-12

Trade unit value = reported trade value divided by reported net weight. A customs indicator, not a seller quotation.

EU internal trade volume — tonnes

t4,360.210
2025-07
2025-08
2025-09
2025-10
2025-11
2025-12
2026-01
2026-02
2026-03
2026-04
2026-05
2026-06

Leading exporters

  1. ES 30.02%
  2. IT 22.24%
  3. FR 21.4%
  4. NL 12.76%
  5. DK 3.99%

Completed 2026-06

Major corridors

  1. ES → PT 184.33 t
  2. NL → DE 110.96 t
  3. ES → FR 91.88 t
  4. IT → FR 80.57 t
  5. FR → IT 64.29 t

EU external trade

Completed 2026-06

Exports outside EU
201.1 t
Imports from outside EU
168.3 t
Trade balance
+32.8 t

EU-27 as a whole; reported third-country partners. Special territories excluded. Missing observations are not zero.

Supply evidence

Official seed-production evidence available.

Years covered
2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026
Reported metrics
Certified seed quantity · Certified seed area · Certified seed quantity · Seed multiplication area · Seed production area
Explore production evidence →
Evidence & sources

Evidence basis

Market situation
DE_BSA_SEED_AUTHORITY
Indicator
Trade unit value · 2024-12; Trade volume · 2026-06
Geography
EU-27 · National / regional seed evidence
Sources / provenance
37a5b41b2719315cb33a3785c67b349e82f13783cf0b90982a73d496b049590a

Evidence source identifiers; observation dates are not publication dates.

Historical seed evidence; not available stock.

Customs shipment value, not a seed offer.

National definitions remain separate; no combined EU production total is inferred.

CN / TARIC customs scope

Customs precision varies by commercial seed type.

Customs-group and parent-taxon quantities are not assigned to individual commercial forms.

EU-27 seed exports to EU and third-country destinations; representative customs-derived export unit value.

  • 12092100 — Alfalfa seed for sowing

Sources / provenance

Missing evidence is not zero. No interpolation or customs-group allocation.

Full methodology →