Finland harvests 3.5 mln tons of grain in 2025

According to the Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke), the 2025 grain harvest reached approximately 3.5 million tons. Barley, the country’s largest crop, was 10% below average, while wheat and oats exceeded their typical yields. Expansion of cultivated areas also contributed to a pea harvest nearly matching last year’s output.

This year, barley, oats, and wheat showed unusually similar yields: 1.2 million tons of barley, nearly 1.1 million tons of oats, and 1 million tons of wheat, according to senior statistician Anneli Partala. While the wheat harvest ranks as the third largest in a century, barley yields continue to decline compared to the 2-million-ton peaks of the early 2000s.

The rye harvest reached roughly 85,000 tons — double last year’s output — sufficient to meet domestic demand for Finnish rye bread. Pea production was also historically high, approaching 100,000 tons, about four times the yield from a decade ago and nearly ten times that of twenty years ago. Sugar beet cultivation rebounded with nearly 690,000 tons harvested, 50% above the ten-year average, while the potato harvest totaled 550,000 tons, slightly below average. Organic oats exceeded 100 tons, one tenth of the total oats harvest, and organic rye rose to over 6 tons, twice last year’s yield.

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