Cereal and oilseed rape harvest: final estimates - 2025

Key Findings

• The Scottish cereal harvest achieves a ten-year high in 2025. Total production from the 2025 cereal harvest is around 3.14 million tonnes. A great result for overall production tonnage and a 5% increase compared to 2024.
• Favourable weather conditions in autumn 2024 supported winter crops. Results from the June Agricultural Census show that the total area used to grow winter crops increased 3.6% compared with the five-year average (2020 to 2024). Spring crops experienced more challenging conditions during the sunniest spring and hottest summer on record.
• It is a great year for Scottish wheat production tonnage. Final results see production increasing by 25% from 2024 to 1,030 thousand tonnes in 2025. This is driven by a 10% increase in area and 13% increase in yield. Yield and production achieve a 20-year record high in 2025.
• Winter barley area is similar to the previous year, but record yield drove increases in production in 2025. Total yield increases by 9%, resulting in total production increasing by 11% to 363 thousand tonnes.
• The final estimate of the Scottish spring barley harvest is 1,566 thousand tonnes. Production decreases 6% compared to 2024, as a result of a 2% decrease in area and 4% decrease in yield.
• Oats production increases by 2% to 185 thousand tonnes. A 7% increase in area is driving this small increase in oats production despite a 4% decrease in yield.
• Scottish oilseed rape had a great growing year. Production increases by 15% to 153 thousand tonnes. Final estimates of the oilseed rape harvest show yield at a 20-year record high in 2025, driving high production despite an 11% decrease in area. Overall yield increases by 29% compared to 2024, coming in at 4.7 tonnes per hectare.

All data tables are available to download under supporting documents.

Try our interactive charts of the data included in this report under the Crops section of the Agricultural Statistics Hub.