Use of Crops on Farms 2023–2024 (provisional) and 2022-2023 (final statistics)

In 2023, farms produced a cereal harvest of roughly 2.9 million tons. Of this volume, farms sold 1.7 million tons during the year. Some 960,000 tons of cereals were used on farms directly as feed and roughly 270,000 tons were used for the next year’s crops.

• The 2023 cereal harvest totaled 2.9 million tons, showing a decrease of some 600,000 tons from the previous year.
• Of the cereal harvest, 1.7 million tons were placed available on the market during the harvest year, with oats having the highest volume of 680,000 tons.
• The majority of the cereals remaining on farms, i.e. 960,000 tons, was used as feed, with barley having the highest volume of approximately 590,000 tons.
• Some 270,000 tons of cereals were used for sowing during autumn 2023 and spring 2024.
• At the beginning of the harvest year (1 July 2023), cereal stocks on farms returned to a more normal level after the previous year’s scarcity, being 590,000 tons. At the end of the harvest year on 30 June 2024, cereal stocks were estimated at 570,000 tons.

Data on the use of crops on farms for the harvest year from 1 July 2023 to 30 June 2024 are preliminary. The data will be specified in September 2025. Data for the harvest year from 1 July 2022 to 30 June 2023 have now been specified as final. All data in the statistical database are available per crop from the harvest year of 1 July 2006 – 30 June 2007.