According to the latest statistics published by Eurostat on agricultural diversity, almost half of total harvested EU cereal production came from France, Germany and Poland and Germany, Spain and France the largest producers of pig meat in the EU. In addition, Germany, France and Italy are the largest cheese producers in the EU.

Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union published a 2011 edition of the Pocketbook on Agriculture and fishery statistics in which it presents the a statistical overview of the agricultural sector in the European Union. Among the findings, France was the main producer all three of the main cereals harvested in the EU (wheat, barley and grain maize). Cereals are the main crops grown on arable land in the EU. After a large cereal production in 2008, favoured by good weather conditions during the year and high cereal prices the previous year, production fell in 2009 and 2010, due to a decrease in the total area under cereals and less favourable weather conditions. The Commission published a forecast in August 2010 in which it stressed that European total cereal production in 2010 should have been close to the average from the last five years. On average, the EU produced around 300 million tonnes of cereals per year over the period 2008-2010.

On the other hand, cow's milk collection in the EU reached 136.4 million (mn) tonnes in 2010. From this milk, 31.5 mn tonnes of drinking milk and 9.0 mn tonnes of cheese, among other products, were produced. The United Kingdom was the largest producer of drinking milk, followed by Germany, France and Spain and the main producers of cheese were Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Poland.

With regard to the meat production in 2010, 22.0 mn tonnes of pig meat, 12.2 mn tonnes of poultry meat and 7.9 mn tonnes of cattle meat were produced in the EU. For pig meat, Germany, Spain, France, Poland and Denmark and Italy were the largest producers. On the production of poultry meat, France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Spain and Poland were the largest producers. For cattle meat, France , Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom were the largest producers.