Wheat quality premium in Lithuania 2026
Lithuanian wheat is bought by quality class - protein content, test weight and falling number decide the class and the price. This page compares the class prices in the latest monthly summary of the Agricultural Data Centre (ŽŪDC). Prices are in €/t.
Largest gap between classes · September 2026
+42.85€/t
Extra-class wheat fetched 42.85 €/t more than Class IV - the widest gap between wheat quality classes in the ŽŪDC monthly summary for September 2026.
Reported prices for September 2026, not today's buyer offer and not an exchange quote.
Wheat quality classes by latest price
| Quality class | Period | Price, €/t | Change on previous period | Above the cheapest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Extra Extra class (milling) | September 2026 | 226.20 | ▲ +9.0% | +42.85 |
| II Class II (milling) | September 2026 | 224.61 | ▲ +11.1% | +41.26 |
| I Class I (milling) | September 2026 | 218.32 | ▲ +6.9% | +34.97 |
| III Class III (mostly feed) | September 2026 | 198.71 | ▲ +7.7% | +15.36 |
| IV Class IV (mostly feed) | September 2026 | 183.35 | ▲ +5.5% | - |
Each row shows its own latest published month. Change is shown only against the immediately preceding month; “-” means ŽŪDC published no figure for the preceding month, so no change is calculated.
Extra vs Class IV premium over time
The gap between the top (Extra) and bottom (Class IV) wheat class prices in the months ŽŪDC published - the taller the bar, the more it paid to grow milling-quality wheat.
Each bar is the gap for one published period, drawn only where ŽŪDC published both series. Periods ŽŪDC did not publish have no bar, so neighbouring bars are not always consecutive periods. Hover a bar for its period and exact value; the latest period is the darker bar.
How to read this. Higher classes (Extra, I, II) meet milling standards - higher protein and falling number - and are bought by mills for food use. Lower classes (III, IV) mostly go to feed. The table shows ŽŪDC's published average class prices, without adjustment.
Source and method
Wheat prices are ŽŪDC's monthly average purchase prices by quality class in euro per tonne. Published by the State Enterprise Agricultural Data Centre (ŽŪDC) on the Lithuanian open data portal get.data.gov.lt; FERMOS.LT imports the figures automatically and shows them unchanged. These are reported average farm-gate purchase prices paid to producers, not exchange quotes (such as Euronext/MATIF futures) and not a buyer's offer today; an individual deal may differ by quality, volume and contract terms.