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Cereal and oilseed rape production

Information on wheat, barley, oats and oilseed rape production.

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From:
Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
Published:
10 October 2022
Last updated:
8 October 2026
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  1. Update to latest report.

  2. Changed heading of 5 year average for moisture content to 3 year average in the dataset. This accurately reflects the number of years averaged and no change to the data has been made.

  3. Updated with 2025 dataset and statistics notice for the UK.

  4. Updated with provisional production estimates for England 2025.

  5. Update several links in each HTML file.

  6. Updated cereal and oilseed production estimates for UK 2024.

  7. Minor correction to the Oilseed Rape England total for 2024.

  8. Amendment to point 2.6 in HTML.

  9. October 2024 update - production estimates for 2024 - html and dataset.

  10. This release is re-issued to include revised UK areas for 2022 due to changes made by Scotland and Northern Ireland. As a result yields for UK, Scotland and Northern Ireland for 2022 have also changed. Production for 2022 is not changed. Overall effect of the revisions is small.

  11. Updated cereal and oilseed production estimates for UK 2023.

  12. Added Provisional Cereal and oilseed production estimates for England 2023.

  13. Edited with updated charts due to a discrepancy in one of the charts.

  14. A chart has been replaced with a revised version after an error was identified.

  15. Added United Kingdom Cereal and oilseed production figures for 2022.

  16. First published.

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Documents

Provisional cereal and oilseed production estimates for England 2026

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Cereal and oilseed production in the United Kingdom 2025

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Cereal and oilseed rape production (dataset)

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Details

Provisional estimates of cereal and oilseed rape production in England for 2026 published in October 2026, including yield and area data. Also included are final estimates of cereal and oilseed rape production for the United Kingdom in 2025 published in December 2025.

A longer time series is available in the accompanying dataset.

The next update will be announced on the statistics release calendar.

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