Crop production statistics 2025: Ordinary grain harvest, good pea and sugar beet harvest
According to recent statistics of the Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke), this year’s grain harvest was ordinary at roughly 3.5 million tons. Our most significant grain, barley, was 10 per cent below average, while the harvests for wheat and oats were larger than average. Growth in field areas resulted in a pea harvest that nearly matches that of last year.
The grain harvest was ordinary at roughly 3.5 million tons
“The barley, oats and wheat harvests were unusually similar this year. The barley harvest was 1.2 million tons, oats were at close to 1.1 million tons, and wheat was at 1 million tons", according to Anneli Partala, Senior Statistician at Luke.
On one hand, the wheat harvest was the third largest over a century of record-keeping. On the other, the barley harvest has been consistently falling from the 2-million-ton peaks of the early 2000s.
Rye harvest secures Finnish rye bread
The rye harvest was twice as large as last year at roughly 85,000 tons. This is enough to account for the domestic demand. Rye harvests vary greatly from year to year, as autumn weather has a significant impact on the fields.
Another historically large pea harvest
There has been strong growth in the cultivation of food and feed pea, especially in feed peas. The pea harvest has fallen only slightly short of a hundred tons. This is another harvest that is quadruple the size of that of a decade ago, and nearly ten times the size of twenty years ago.
Return of the sugar beet
After a few quieter decades, cultivation of sugar beet is on the upturn. This year’s harvest of nearly 690,000 tons is over 50 % higher than the ten-year average, but still only good half of the peak year of 1999.
Potato harvest at last year's level
This year’s potato harvest is slightly below average at 550,000 tons. This is farm from the peak harvest of 1948, which was nearly two million tons.
Average grass feed harvest – change in statistics
Since 2025, grass feed harvests are recorded as the dry matter content, which makes them easier to compare. Due to this, the grass feed harvest is not directly comparable with previous years.
Oats, king of the organic grains
The organic oats harvest has exceeded a hundred tons, which is one tenth of the entire oats harvest. The harvest of organic rye rises to over six tons, and like regular rye, is nearly double compared to last year.
Background and significance of the statistics
The crop production statistics are part of the Official Statistics of Finland (OSF), for which data is collected from 5,500 farms. The preliminary data is based on the results of 4,600 farms, 600 of whom are organic farms. The final statistics will be ready in February 2026. You can subscribe to the statistics by email here: https://www.luke.fi/en/form/subscribe-to-releases.
