Spendrups And Lantmännen Scale Up Sustainable Farming

28 August 2025, Sweden: Spendrups and Lantmännen have agreed to expand their scope of the Climate & Nature cultivation program to 25,000 tons of malting barley. This corresponds to just over 70 percent of Spendrups’ total need for conventionally grown malting barley* and results in an annual climate saving equivalent to nearly 4,000 tonne of CO₂e. The ambition is that the program will cover all of Spendrups’ malting barley needs within a few years.

The collaboration began in 2022 and has since gradually scaled up from 3,000 tonne to the 25,000 tonne of malting barley harvested this year on Swedish farmland, to be used in beer brewing next year. Malting barley is the main ingredient in beer brewing and represents Spendrups’ largest raw material. Since the collaboration began, a total of 8,000 tonne of CO₂e will have been avoided up until the 2025 harvest.

“Spendrups was ranked as Europe’s leading climate beverage company in 2025 by the Financial Times. That is a position we want to maintain. We are therefore proud to share our continued commitment to scale up malting barley cultivation according to Climate & Nature. Step by step, we are moving closer to our climate targets, and this shows how important it is to collaborate across the value chain to make it possible,” says Richard Bengtsson, Master Brewer at Spendrups Brewery.

Reducing climate impact across the entire value chain is one of four focus areas in Spendrups’ sustainability strategy. Spendrups has adopted Science Based Targets for 2030, with 2019 as the baseline year. In addition to reducing climate impact by 92.5 percent in scope 1 and 2 (production and internal transport), Spendrups will also reduce climate impact in the value chain by 33 percent, with raw materials being a key component. In 2025, Spendrups also adopted a separate target for agriculture, a so-called FLAG target, with a 33 percent reduction.

Lantmännen’s Climate & Nature cultivation program includes concrete measures to strengthen biodiversity and reduce climate impact. The program is part of Lantmännen’s vision Farming of the Future, with the goal of creating productive, profitable and climate-neutral farming by 2050. The program has reduced the climate footprint by up to 45 percent compared to 2015, when it was launched, and today includes wheat, barley, rye and oats.

“Spendrups is an important partner for us, and we are very pleased with their determination. Turning ambitious goals into action is the step the industry now faces, and gradually increasing the amount of malting barley grown according to Climate & Nature is exactly the kind of action needed to meet the climate targets for 2030. Together, we are leading the way toward a more sustainable food value chain, strengthening Swedish agriculture, and making products with a lower climate footprint more accessible to consumers. It is partnerships like this that demonstrate the strength of Lantmännen’s cultivation program and enable its continued development” says Claes Johansson, Head of Sustainability at Lantmännen.

*Spendrups also purchases organically grown malting barley.

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