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According to Tike´s advance harvest estimates, this year´s cereal harvest will reach 4.2 billion kilos. The grain crop is 460 million kilos higher than last year. 80% of the harvest is feed grain: 2.0 billion kilos of barley and 1.3 billion kilos of oats. The rye harvest is 87 million kilos, or 37 million kilos more than the harvest of 2006. More accurate harvest figures will be available in January 2008, when Tike publishes the final harvest statistics for 2007. Cereal harvest for 2007 4.2 billion kilos

The quality of the Finnish grain harvest is good. Half of the wheat is of bread grain quality and 42 % of the malting barley is of malting quality. 94 % of the oats fulfil the general quality requirements set by the feed industry. Only barley is of lower quality than last year. Even so, 71 % of the barley exceeds the 64 kg hectolitre weight. Tike and Evira have compiled the advance information on the 2007 harvest. The final harvest information will be published in January 2008. Half of the wheat is of bread grain quality