EU: Winter barley seeding mostly complete and crop 2025 is seen to be off to a good early start

Winter barley seeding is mostly complete across western Europe under generally dry, and warmer conditions. Better than the previous two crop years, crop’25 is off to a good early start, RMI Analytics said in their latest report.

Dry conditions, if persisting for any extended period would impact yield potential. For crop’25, the experts forecast the production to be higher (+0.1 mln tonnes) to 62.6 mln tonnes.

Barley exports have slowed but remain ahead of crop’24 pace, it is reported. Malting barley prices have firmed driven largely by support from feed barley. Premiums remain quite low for crop’25, but wider for crop’26. Very little trade in malting barley is reported.