Publication - Statistics

Cereal and oilseed rape harvest: final estimates - 2023

Published: 14 December 2023
Directorate: Environment and Forestry Directorate, +1 more … Agriculture and Rural Economy Directorate
Part of: Farming and rural

Final estimates of area, yield and production for winter and spring barley, wheat, oats and oilseed rape, for the 2023 harvest.

Scottish cereal harvest: estimates

Supporting documents

Barley production and yield average

Spring barley

In 2023 spring barley yield was 6.3 tonnes per hectare. Spring barley production was 1.6 million tonnes.

Production decreased 2% as a result of decreased yield from the high of the previous year. But, production and yield remain just above their ten-year averages.

Winter barley

In 2023 winter barley yield was 7.5 tonnes per hectare. Winter barley production was 348 thousand tonnes.

Yield returned from the record value in 2022 to about the ten-year average of 7.6 tonnes per hectare.

Figure 2: Spring barley and winter barley production and average production from 2014 to 2023

A line chart showing spring barley and winter barley production and average production from 2014 to 2023

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Barley production and yield average

Spring barley

Winter barley

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