A good cereal harvest predicted for 2025

An Accredited Official Statistics Publication for Scotland.

The Chief Statistician has released predictions for the 2025 Scottish harvest.

These industry predictions anticipate overall cereal production could reach a high of over 3.2 million tonnes.

This could bring total production in at well above the average over the past five years, despite dry spring and summer conditions.

Winter crops, including winter barley, oilseed rape and wheat, are predicted to perform well, with some very good yields being reported.

The outlook is more mixed for spring crops, where the impacts of drought as a result of the sunniest spring and hottest summer on record will be most felt. Spring barley, Scotland’s largest cereal crop, is expected to come in at around average despite the challenging growing conditions.