Crop production 2021

The 2021 cereal harvest totalled 2.6 million tons. The barley harvest was one third lower than average, while the oat harvest was a quarter lower and the rye and wheat harvests a fifth lower than average. The last time the barley harvest was this low was in the 1970s and the oat harvest in the 1980s.

• Totalling 1.032 million tons, the barley harvest decreased by 25%
• Totalling 790,000 tons, the oats harvest decreased by 34%
• Totalling 678,000 tons - the wheat harvest corresponded to that of last year
• Totalling 67,000 tons – the rye harvest corresponded to that of last year
• The potato harvest, 559,000 tons, was 11% lower year-on-year
• The peas harvest, 43,000 tons, was 21% lower year-on-year

The total organic cereals harvest for 2021 – 116,000 tons – was 26% lower than in 2020, which accounts for 4 per cent of the total cereals harvest in Finland.

• The production of oats decreased by 25,000 tons to 58,000 tons (-30%).
• The production of barley decreased by 10,000 tons to 12,000 tons (-46%).
• The production of rye stayed stable in 10,000 tons (+6%).
• The production of wheat stayed stable in 18,000 tons (+2%).

All information is available in the stat.luke.fi service. The service includes crop production information about key crops in all parts of Finland starting from 1920, and organic information starting from 2006. Regional crop production information is available in the service starting from 1999, and organic information starting from 2014. Conventionally produced crop production information is available in the service starting from 2020.

Information about the quality of the grain harvest has been compiled by combining the harvest information collected by Luke and Finnish Food Authority's grain quality monitoring information.