Cereals News

Openfield provides an update on the 2024/25 trading season, and what could be in store next year, as well as advice on grain nutrient analysis.

Yields are improving as the harvest 2025 continues, despite stop-start progress over the last couple of weeks caused by short spells of often heavy rain, according to AHDB’s latest harvest report.

The Recommended List winter barley harvest results have just been published, reporting yields above the five-year average. Winter oilseed rape yields remain variable, according to AHDB.

While eggs are the primary focus at Aberdeenshire’s Farmlay Eggs, the business also grows cereals, including winter and spring barley, winter oilseed rape, and winter wheat. The farm has just started the 2025 harvest.

Although this year’s harvest kicked off earlier than usual, intermittent and often heavy rainfall has slowed the progress, according to the AHDB’s second harvest report of 2025.

A novel seed treatment integrating beneficial microbes and micronutrients is set to hit the market ahead of next season.

As harvest gets underway, agronomy firm Hutchinsons is reminding growers to think carefully when considering whether to bale and remove straw from fields.

Farmer Ben Aveling has provided Farmers Guide with the latest harvest insights from Radmore Farm in Northamptonshire.

Long dry spells in the spring and recent hot temperatures mean that harvest is off to the fastest start since at least 2006, with multiple reports of winter barley being cut in June, AHDB said.

In the latest harvest update, Farmers Guide catches up with Suffolk farm manager Matthew Carter and Merseyside farmer and YouTuber Olly Harrison. Stay tuned for more updates as the season unfolds.

The Farmers Guide team brings you the latest harvest 2025 updates from across the UK. Stay with us for more as the season unfolds.

UK farmers are firing up their combines earlier than usual, making a start on harvest 2025. Farmers Guide will be tracking harvest progress throughout the summer, with regular updates from farms across the country.