Major crops for the export market include kiwifruit, pipfruit, stonefruit, onions, squash, flowers and berryfruit. Grapes are grown mainly for the domestic market and for wine production. Main grain and seed crops New Zealand wheat is primarily grown for domestic human consumption and is milled for flour. Some wheat grain and the by-products of flour milling, bran and pollard, are used for stock feed. Most wheat is grown in the South Island in the Canterbury region.
Most barley grown in New Zealand is used for the manufacture of stock feed and for malting.
Exports of malting and feed barley fluctuate in response to price changes, reflecting international supply and demand. Primarily grown in the eastern North Island, maize is used as poultry feed and increasingly as a supplementary feed for pigs and other livestock. Grown mainly for threshing and green feed, oats are also used to produce milled rolled oats, oatmeal, and oaten foods. Hay and silage crops are grown for supplementary animal feed. They are almost exclusively grown on the farms where they are consumed.