Use of Crops on Farms 2024–2025 (provisional) and 2023-2024 (final statistics)

In 2024, farms produced a cereal harvest of roughly 3.2 billion kilos. Of this volume, farms sold approximately 1.8 billion kilos during the year. Some 950 million kilos of cereals were used on farms directly as feed, and roughly 260 million kilos were used for the next year’s crops.

• The 2024 cereal harvest totalled 3.2 billion kilos, showing an increase of some 260 million kilos from the previous year.
• Of the cereal harvest, 1.8 billion kilos were made available on the market during the harvest year, with oats having the highest volume of roughly 780 million kilos.
• The majority of the cereals remaining on farms, i.e. 950 million kilos, was used as feed, with barley having the highest volume of approximately 590 million kilos.
• Some 260 million kilos of cereals were used for sowing during the autumn of 2024 and spring of 2025.
• At the beginning of the harvest year (1 July 2024), cereal stocks on farms decreased compared to the previous year, to approximately 460 million kilos. At the end of the harvest year on 30 June 2025, cereal stocks were estimated at 570 million kilos.

Data on the use of crops on farms for the harvest year from 1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025 are preliminary. The data 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 2006 – 30 June 2007.