September, 2002
Denmark
primarily exports red fescue. The EU supports red fescue production
at a rate of 368 euros per ton.
The chart to the left is for May-April periods (July-June
marketing year data not yet available).
Danish fescue seed exports during the first four months of 2002
are up 37 percent from the same period last year. Most Danish
exports stay within the EU.
The world’s largest non-European, non-North American importer of
fescue seed is China. In MY 2001/02, Denmark supplied 20 percent of
China’s imports; the U.S. accounted for 70 percent
