UK wheat area to rise for harvest 2025

Published Nov 21, 2024

Tridge summary

The AHDB's Early Bird Survey predicts changes in the UK's cultivated areas for harvest 2025, including increases in wheat and total oat areas, and decreases in winter and spring barley, as well as oilseed rape areas. The wheat area is expected to rise by 5.4%, oats by 3.5%, winter barley by -1%, spring barley by -13%, and oilseed rape by -17%. The survey also notes the potential for uncropped arable area to rise by +51%. These forecasts will be updated with the availability of full 2024 crop areas in late December.

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Sign up to receive the Weekly Market Report and Grain Market Daily from AHDB. AHDB’s Early Bird Survey provisionally projects the UK wheat and total oat areas rising for harvest 2025, but the winter and spring barley and oilseed rape (OSR) areas falling. The overall wheat area is forecast to rise by 5.4%, all within the winter crop, after last autumn’s challenging weather sharply reduced the area. However, at 1,613 Kha, the projected 2025 area remains below the 2019 – 2023 average of 1,705 Kha. Depending on yields, only a partial area recovery for 2025 could mean UK production remains below average in 2025. This will be explored further in future analysis, and insights into crop conditions for 2025 are due in the coming weeks. The area of oats is projected to rise by a modest 3.5%. At 189 Kha, the 2025 projected area would be slightly above the 2019 – 2023 average but below 2021’s 200 Kha. The winter barley area is estimated to have fallen by just under 1%, potentially limited by ...

Source: Ahdb