Barley Price
Used mainly as livestock feed and for malting and brewing (beer and whisky). Major producers include the EU, Russia, Australia and Canada. Prices tend to track corn and wheat, since the three grains substitute for each other in animal feed rations.
Latest World price (2020-08): -28% vs. the 5-year average, -46% vs. the 10-year average, -40% vs. a year ago.
Right now, 1 t of barley buys about 0.32 t of urea — World benchmark prices, 2020-08.
Price Chart
"World" is the global benchmark price (World Bank Pink Sheet, monthly since 1960, where available). EU country options are Eurostat producer prices (annual); Canadian province options are Statistics Canada producer prices (monthly); US state options are USDA AMS daily cash grain bids (individual elevators/trade locations averaged per state per day), "United States" alone is USDA NASS's monthly national figure. "EU-27 (average)", "Canada (average)" and "US daily average" are simple, unweighted means across whichever member states/provinces/US states reported a price that period, computed by agri.markets — none of these sources publishes an official aggregate for this data, so these are not production-weighted figures. Currency conversion uses monthly ECB reference rates since 1999 (some currencies joined later) — for comparison, not precise historical FX accounting. "Bushel" uses the USDA/CBOT standard test weight for barley (21.77 kg) — bushels are a fixed weight that differs per grain, not a fixed volume.