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Cereals purchased, used and stockpiled, Q2 2017

Published 10.8.2017

During the second quarter of 2017:

A total of 391 million kilos of cereals entered the market from farms, of which

  • bread wheat 58 million kilos
  • feed wheat 67 million kilos
  • rye 12 million kilos
  • malting barley 44 million kilos
  • feed barley 109 million kilos
  • oats 101 million kilos.

A total of 15 million kilos of rape and turnip rape entered the market from farms.

Industry in Finland used a total of 342 million kilos of cereals

  • 106 million kilos were used for food
  • 148 million kilos were used for feed.

At the end of June 2017:

  • Trade and industry stocks contained a combined total of 419 million kilos of cereals.
  • The cereal stocks contained 104 million kilos of wheat, 60 million kilos of rye, 124 million kilos of barley and 131 million kilos of oats.

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