Cereals balance sheet, 2024- 2025 (provisional) and 2023 - 2024 final figures

In 2024, the cereal harvest was at a regular level at 3.2 billion kilos, showing an increase of some 260 million kilos from the previous year. This was sufficient to cover the domestic use of cereals of 2.6 billion kilos. The food industry accounted for some 490 million kilos, animal feed for roughly 1.5 billion kilos, other domestic industrial uses for approximately 280 million kilos and the next year’s crop production, or sowing, for 260 million kilos. The cereals balance sheet estimate for the period from 1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025 will be specified as final in a year from now.

• In 2024, cereal production totalled roughly 3.2 billion kilos – the domestic consumption of cereals during the harvest year from 1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025 was 2.6 billion kilos.
• Livestock feeding accounted for some 1.5 billion kilos of the cereal harvest.
• Approximately 490 million kilos of cereals were used in food production, with wheat accounting for half. The use of oats, at 185 million kilos, has continued to grow and is now more than double that of rye, at 76 million kilos.
• Oat exports continued to grow compared to the previous year to 468 million kilos.
• Cereal imports halved from the previous year to 19 million kilos.
• The cereal stockpile remained close to the previous year's level. The stockpile remained at about 1.2 billion kilos both at the beginning of the harvest year (1 July 2024) and at its end (1 July 2025).

The cereals balance sheet’s data for the harvest year from 1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025 are preliminary and will be specified in September 2026. Data for the harvest year from 1 July 2023 to 30 June 2024 have now been specified as final. All data in the statistical database are available per crop from the harvest year of 1 July 2004 – 30 June 2005.