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A record-breaking crop of spring wheat was harvested this autumn. However, the quality of the harvest was weakened by its low protein content, which was at its lowest level in ten years. 82 per cent of the malting barley harvest exceeded the quality requirements for malting in terms of protein content and grain size. The exceptionally low protein content also decreased the malting-quality harvest. The quality of the feed grain crop was mainly good.A quarter of the wheat is of bread grain quality

According to Tike’s advance harvest estimates, the dry grain harvest amounted to almost 4.3 billion kg. In addition, 0.2 billion kg of cereals were harvested green. Crops of barley (2.2 billion kg) and wheat (0.9 billion kg) hit an all-time high. The oat harvest (1.1 billion kg) declined by 100 million kg and the rye harvest (42 million kg) by a third compared to 2008. More accurate harvest figures will be available in January 2010, when Tike will publish the final harvest statistics for 2009.

In mid-October, the amount of food potatoes in storage was 225 million kilos, an increase of 33.6 million kilos on last autumn. This is the second time that Tike (The Information Centre of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry) has gathered statistics on the amount of potatoes in the food potato storages of farms. Food potato stocks saw year-on-year growth due to the increase in the production area and the good crop yield, and because the potatoes in storage from the previous year lasted until August.