Cereal and oilseed rape harvest - first estimates: 2025
Initial estimates of area, yield and production for winter and spring barley, wheat, oats and oilseed rape, for the 2025 harvest.
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A good year for winter barley and average results for spring barley
Spring barley
Spring barley production is predicted to be around 1,650 thousand tonnes in 2025, close to the previous five-year average. This is a 1% decrease on 2024, as a result of a small decrease in planted area.
Despite the dry conditions, a reasonable spring barley performance is anticipated overall. However, industry experts are reporting high rejection rates for malting quality, and predict a high surplus of barley for feed.
Winter barley
Winter barley production is predicted to be around 381 thousand tonnes in 2025. This is a 16% increase compared to 2024 and mostly driven by a 15% increase in yield.
Winter barley predictions see yield increase to around 8.8. tonnes per hectare, which would be a record high for this crop.
Figure 2: Spring barley and winter barley production, 2016 to 2025, and five-year average production (2020 to 2024)
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