Cereal and oilseed rape harvest: final estimates - 2023

Final estimates of area, yield and production for winter and spring barley, wheat, oats and oilseed rape, for the 2023 harvest.


Wheat yield and production remain high despite small decreases

In 2023 wheat yield was 9.2 tonnes per hectare. Wheat production was 985 thousand tonnes.

Wheat yield and production decreased, by 2% and 1% respectively, compared to 2022. Yet figures for yield and production remain higher than the ten-year averages (8.6 tonnes per hectare and 912 thousand tonnes, respectively).

Figure 3: Wheat production and average production from 2014 to 2023

A line chart showing wheat production and average production from 2014 to 2023

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