United Kingdom: Scotland publishes final figures for last year’s barley crop

Final figures for last year’s barley harvest were published by the Scottish Government's chief statistician on January, 14, Scotsman reported on the same day.

The production of barley, Scotland's most important crop, rose by 12.9 per cent or 214,000 tonnes to 1.9 million tonnes.

Commodity values have increased, but are still well below 12 months ago. The odds must be that there will be a reduction in the area of crops planted in the spring, with high fertiliser prices making the growing of barley on more marginal land economically doubtful, experts comment.

16 January, 2009