UK: Winter barley harvest completed, early spring barley yields encouraging

AHDB's third harvest 2025 report, published on August 8, shows yields improving as harvest continues - particularly for winter wheat - despite stop-start progress over the last couple of weeks, caused by short spells of often heavy rain.

The winter barley harvest in the UK is now complete, with the final hectares cut this week. Yield is one per cent down on the five-year average.

The spring barley harvest is 19 per cent complete. Early yields are encouraging; up 21 per cent on the five-year average. However, more data is needed to draw precise conclusions, as the areas harvested are mostly in eastern and southern regions, so not representative of the UK.