Harvest Overview • The UK had one of its earliest harvests on record, helped along by extremely dry sunny weather throughout June and July. In England we saw a new record daytime temperature of 40.3C for one day in July, the first time the 40-degree mark has ever been exceeded. However, unlike much of mainland Europe, in general temperatures even at their peak were not sufficient to cause any damage to our malting or milling crops. • Harvest was largely finished for the southern half of the UK by mid-August and with no rain breaks in the weather, quality was consistently high across all types. Yield also exceeded expectations; many farms reported new record yield for winter sown crops and spring crops were not far behind. • Wheat has been characterised by very high bushel weights and correspondingly slightly lower than average proteins. We project the UK to have an exportable wheat surplus this season of about 2.25 mln tonnes which will be the highest figure for several years. • Barley also performed well with very high calibration rates in spring crops. Propino has now almost disappeared from the UK leaving Planet and Laureate to dominate the export market. The combination of good yields and high calibration rates means we estimate the UK will have an exportable malting barley surplus of about 650,000 MT which is very much at the high end of our typical availability year-on-year.
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