Barley Price
Latest price
5.86 USD/bu
Product: Barley · monthly price received by farmers
Price Chart
How this year compares, month by month, to the typical pattern of recent years for the selected region.
Notable price events
- Russia's 2010 drought and grain export ban — Russia's worst drought in decades destroyed about a fifth of its wheat fields. On 5 August 2010 the government announced a ban on grain exports from 15 August, later extended into mid-2011, and US wheat futures jumped almost $1 a bushel to near two-year highs on the news.
"World" is the global benchmark price (World Bank Pink Sheet, monthly since 1960, where available). Canadian province options are Statistics Canada producer prices (monthly); "Canada (average)" is a simple, unweighted mean across reporting provinces, computed by agri.markets — not a production-weighted figure. EU options are the European Commission's own weekly reference prices. The "United States" option is USDA NASS's monthly national figure. Currency, unit and inflation conversions are explained in how agri.markets sources and calculates prices.
Price data table
Recent prices
| Period | Price (USD/bu) | Change |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 2026 | 5.86 | +2.4% |
| Jul 2026 | 5.72 | -0.3% |
| Jun 2026 | 5.74 | +0.7% |
| May 2026 | 5.7 | -2.7% |
| Apr 2026 | 5.86 | +2.8% |
| Mar 2026 | 5.7 | -0.5% |
| Feb 2026 | 5.73 | -2.2% |
| Jan 2026 | 5.86 | +6.4% |
| Dec 2025 | 5.51 | -6.5% |
| Nov 2025 | 5.89 | +1.7% |
| Oct 2025 | 5.79 | +0.5% |
| Sep 2025 | 5.76 | -1.2% |
Annual averages
| Year | Average (USD/bu) | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 (year to date) | 5.77 | -4.1% |
| 2025 | 6.02 | -17.1% |
| 2024 | 7.27 | -4.7% |
| 2023 | 7.62 | +15.0% |
| 2022 | 6.63 | +29.7% |
| 2021 | 5.11 | +4.3% |
| 2020 | 4.9 | +1.0% |
| 2019 | 4.85 | +3.2% |
| 2018 | 4.7 | -3.9% |
| 2017 | 4.89 | -11.0% |
Market situation
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.
Barley Prices by Region
United States (1)
Canada (9)
European Union (62)
Belgium
Croatia
Czechia
Denmark
Finland
France
Hungary
Ireland
Lithuania
Netherlands
Slovakia
About Barley
Used mainly as livestock feed and for malting and brewing (beer and whisky). Major producers include the EU, Russia, Australia and Canada. Malting-grade barley (which must meet stricter germination and protein specs) trades at a real premium over feed-grade barley, so the same harvest can produce two distinct price tiers depending on quality. Trade is also politically exposed - China's 2020 anti-dumping tariffs on Australian barley, lifted only in 2023, cut off what had been Australia's largest single export market for several years. Prices tend to track corn and wheat, since the three grains substitute for each other in animal feed rations.
Top Barley Producers
| Rank | Country | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Russia | 16,667,000 t | 2.6 t/ha |
| 2 | Australia | 13,265,000 t | 2.9 t/ha |
| 3 | Germany | 10,610,000 t | 6.4 t/ha |
| 4 | France | 9,669,250 t | 5.3 t/ha |
| 5 | Canada | 8,143,897 t | 3.4 t/ha |
| 6 | Türkiye | 8,100,000 t | 2.5 t/ha |
| 7 | Spain | 7,440,970 t | 3.3 t/ha |
| 8 | United Kingdom | 7,091,000 t | 5.9 t/ha |
| 9 | Ukraine | 5,313,880 t | 3.8 t/ha |
| 10 | Argentina | 5,097,340 t | 3.9 t/ha |
| 11 | Iran | 4,000,000 t | 2.3 t/ha |
| 12 | Kazakhstan | 3,839,684 t | 1.7 t/ha |
| 13 | Denmark | 3,141,150 t | 5.5 t/ha |
| 14 | United States | 3,131,660 t | 4.1 t/ha |
| 15 | Poland | 2,960,050 t | 4.3 t/ha |
| 16 | Ethiopia | 2,517,344 t | 2.4 t/ha |
| 17 | Romania | 2,203,260 t | 4.1 t/ha |
| 18 | India | 1,699,235 t | 3.1 t/ha |
| 19 | Czechia | 1,671,530 t | 5.3 t/ha |
| 20 | Syria | 1,572,020 t | 1.2 t/ha |
| 21 | Hungary | 1,554,570 t | 5.5 t/ha |
| 22 | Ireland | 1,282,050 t | 7.1 t/ha |
| 23 | Sweden | 1,263,900 t | 4.4 t/ha |
| 24 | Finland | 1,178,950 t | 3.7 t/ha |
| 25 | Bulgaria | 1,101,440 t | 5.6 t/ha |
| 26 | Belarus | 1,100,000 t | 3.0 t/ha |
| 27 | Azerbaijan | 1,067,119 t | 3.0 t/ha |
| 28 | Algeria | 1,000,000 t | 1.3 t/ha |
| 29 | China | 985,986 t | 3.7 t/ha |
| 30 | Italy | 918,580 t | 3.8 t/ha |
| 31 | Uruguay | 828,978 t | 4.0 t/ha |
| 32 | Mexico | 827,491 t | 2.8 t/ha |
| 33 | Lithuania | 748,510 t | 3.9 t/ha |
| 34 | Austria | 720,290 t | 5.7 t/ha |
| 35 | Morocco | 659,225 t | 1.0 t/ha |
| 36 | Norway | 645,000 t | 4.4 t/ha |
| 37 | Kyrgyzstan | 611,050 t | 2.5 t/ha |
| 38 | Slovakia | 595,040 t | 4.7 t/ha |
| 39 | Serbia | 518,761 t | 5.3 t/ha |
| 40 | Brazil | 427,956 t | 3.7 t/ha |
| 41 | South Africa | 374,000 t | 3.7 t/ha |
| 42 | New Zealand | 355,515 t | 7.7 t/ha |
| 43 | Greece | 333,170 t | 2.9 t/ha |
| 44 | Estonia | 315,200 t | 3.3 t/ha |
| 45 | Croatia | 301,390 t | 5.0 t/ha |
| 46 | Belgium | 300,910 t | 6.2 t/ha |
| 47 | Tunisia | 300,000 t | 1.3 t/ha |
| 48 | Latvia | 252,900 t | 3.0 t/ha |
| 49 | Peru | 244,114 t | 2.0 t/ha |
| 50 | Netherlands | 235,710 t | 6.2 t/ha |
| 51 | Moldova | 200,444 t | 3.1 t/ha |
| 52 | Thailand | 190,988 t | 2.5 t/ha |
| 53 | Chile | 189,333 t | 7.5 t/ha |
| 54 | Japan | 185,600 t | 2.9 t/ha |
| 55 | Tajikistan | 165,000 t | 2.4 t/ha |
| 56 | Iraq | 164,495 t | 1.0 t/ha |
| 57 | Uzbekistan | 157,985 t | 1.6 t/ha |
| 58 | North Macedonia | 145,149 t | 3.2 t/ha |
| 59 | Switzerland | 116,806 t | 4.6 t/ha |
| 60 | Slovenia | 100,700 t | 4.8 t/ha |
| 61 | Afghanistan | 100,000 t | 1.4 t/ha |
| 62 | Egypt | 90,000 t | 4.1 t/ha |
| 63 | Bosnia & Herzegovina | 77,697 t | 3.6 t/ha |
| 64 | Armenia | 71,939 t | 1.7 t/ha |
| 65 | Eritrea | 65,000 t | 1.4 t/ha |
| 66 | Libya | 65,000 t | 0.5 t/ha |
| 67 | Turkmenistan | 64,559 t | 2.0 t/ha |
| 68 | Zimbabwe | 58,151 t | 5.5 t/ha |
| 69 | North Korea | 53,060 t | 1.2 t/ha |
| 70 | Georgia | 48,400 t | 2.0 t/ha |
| 71 | Kenya | 48,237 t | 3.5 t/ha |
| 72 | South Korea | 47,730 t | 2.0 t/ha |
| 73 | Bolivia | 47,246 t | 0.9 t/ha |
| 74 | Portugal | 45,760 t | 4.0 t/ha |
| 75 | Pakistan | 43,878 t | 1.1 t/ha |
| 76 | Jordan | 43,180 t | 1.2 t/ha |
| 77 | Luxembourg | 32,920 t | 5.2 t/ha |
| 78 | Yemen | 30,000 t | 1.1 t/ha |
| 79 | Nepal | 24,931 t | 1.3 t/ha |
| 80 | Albania | 23,792 t | 3.2 t/ha |
| 81 | Lebanon | 20,000 t | 1.8 t/ha |
| 82 | Saudi Arabia | 11,775 t | 5.7 t/ha |
| 83 | Colombia | 10,488 t | 2.8 t/ha |
| 84 | Ecuador | 10,462 t | 1.6 t/ha |
| 85 | Mongolia | 9,111 t | 1.0 t/ha |
| 86 | Zambia | 8,154 t | 6.5 t/ha |
| 87 | Tanzania | 7,545 t | 2.0 t/ha |
| 88 | Israel | 7,200 t | 1.0 t/ha |
| 89 | Cyprus | 6,590 t | 1.0 t/ha |
| 90 | Kuwait | 5,181 t | 7.5 t/ha |
| 91 | Iceland | 4,986 t | 2.0 t/ha |
| 92 | Mauritania | 1,476 t | 3.1 t/ha |
| 93 | Congo - Kinshasa | 1,007 t | 0.7 t/ha |
| 94 | Oman | 722 t | 3.1 t/ha |
| 95 | Montenegro | 652 t | 1.6 t/ha |
| 96 | Bhutan | 527 t | 1.1 t/ha |
| 97 | Lesotho | 298 t | 0.4 t/ha |
| 98 | Bangladesh | 195 t | 1.2 t/ha |
| 99 | Qatar | 143 t | 5.5 t/ha |
| 100 | Guatemala | 18 t | 2.2 t/ha |
FAOSTAT production data, 2024. World average yield: 3.2 t/ha.
Top Barley Importers
| Rank | Country | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 14,239,729 t |
| 2 | Saudi Arabia | 3,608,007 t |
| 3 | Netherlands | 2,635,484 t |
| 4 | Belgium | 1,696,390 t |
| 5 | Spain | 1,591,114 t |
| 6 | Germany | 1,235,333 t |
| 7 | Japan | 1,169,541 t |
| 8 | Morocco | 1,063,941 t |
| 9 | Brazil | 937,096 t |
| 10 | Algeria | 782,939 t |
| 11 | Italy | 773,677 t |
| 12 | Iran | 651,006 t |
| 13 | Kuwait | 553,740 t |
| 14 | Ireland | 528,573 t |
| 15 | Jordan | 496,260 t |
| 16 | Portugal | 472,227 t |
| 17 | Tunisia | 471,972 t |
| 18 | Libya | 400,550 t |
| 19 | Colombia | 359,000 t |
| 20 | Denmark | 328,214 t |
| 21 | Romania | 296,606 t |
| 22 | Israel | 295,898 t |
| 23 | Uzbekistan | 271,639 t |
| 24 | Vietnam | 262,012 t |
| 25 | Austria | 258,023 t |
| 26 | United Kingdom | 226,716 t |
| 27 | Cyprus | 214,542 t |
| 28 | Iraq | 213,157 t |
| 29 | Kazakhstan | 211,119 t |
| 30 | United States | 197,176 t |
| 31 | Türkiye | 159,678 t |
| 32 | Canada | 141,696 t |
| 33 | United Arab Emirates | 134,641 t |
| 34 | Greece | 128,139 t |
| 35 | South Africa | 124,105 t |
| 36 | India | 121,135 t |
| 37 | Qatar | 119,230 t |
| 38 | Peru | 117,262 t |
| 39 | Poland | 116,705 t |
| 40 | Oman | 115,607 t |
| 41 | Sweden | 106,329 t |
| 42 | Belarus | 100,000 t |
| 43 | South Korea | 85,734 t |
| 44 | Slovakia | 77,949 t |
| 45 | Tajikistan | 74,234 t |
| 46 | Azerbaijan | 68,501 t |
| 47 | Switzerland | 60,955 t |
| 48 | Croatia | 55,785 t |
| 49 | Norway | 54,904 t |
| 50 | Armenia | 52,652 t |
| 51 | Lebanon | 50,857 t |
| 52 | Ecuador | 49,120 t |
| 53 | Uganda | 48,448 t |
| 54 | Slovenia | 42,998 t |
| 55 | Czechia | 38,738 t |
| 56 | Thailand | 38,151 t |
| 57 | France | 33,764 t |
| 58 | Mexico | 30,000 t |
| 59 | Latvia | 26,842 t |
| 60 | Bosnia & Herzegovina | 26,679 t |
| 61 | Taiwan | 25,620 t |
| 62 | Bangladesh | 23,894 t |
| 63 | Hungary | 20,144 t |
| 64 | Philippines | 18,885 t |
| 65 | Finland | 18,240 t |
| 66 | Kyrgyzstan | 16,376 t |
| 67 | Albania | 16,202 t |
| 68 | Iceland | 12,824 t |
| 69 | Lithuania | 12,391 t |
| 70 | Serbia | 12,137 t |
| 71 | Malta | 12,015 t |
| 72 | Estonia | 11,610 t |
| 73 | Pakistan | 10,666 t |
| 74 | Syria | 7,987 t |
| 75 | Georgia | 6,780 t |
| 76 | Malaysia | 4,447 t |
| 77 | Egypt | 3,587 t |
| 78 | New Caledonia | 3,314 t |
| 79 | New Zealand | 3,279 t |
| 80 | Luxembourg | 2,764 t |
| 81 | Bahrain | 2,278 t |
| 82 | Zambia | 2,209 t |
| 83 | Montenegro | 1,862 t |
| 84 | Kenya | 1,522 t |
| 85 | Tanzania | 1,272 t |
| 86 | North Macedonia | 1,202 t |
| 87 | Nepal | 895 t |
| 88 | Bulgaria | 871 t |
| 89 | Russia | 654 t |
| 90 | Burundi | 653 t |
| 91 | Afghanistan | 642 t |
| 92 | Singapore | 515 t |
| 93 | Cambodia | 357 t |
| 94 | Ukraine | 310 t |
| 95 | Indonesia | 260 t |
| 96 | Mozambique | 246 t |
| 97 | Argentina | 162 t |
| 98 | Sri Lanka | 145 t |
| 99 | Papua New Guinea | 142 t |
| 100 | Côte d’Ivoire | 136 t |
| 101 | Mauritania | 124 t |
| 102 | Moldova | 107 t |
| 103 | Namibia | 94 t |
| 104 | Venezuela | 93 t |
| 105 | Hong Kong SAR China | 48 t |
| 106 | Guyana | 45 t |
| 107 | Botswana | 44 t |
| 108 | Nigeria | 35 t |
| 109 | Ethiopia | 32 t |
| 110 | Costa Rica | 26 t |
| 111 | Lesotho | 24 t |
| 112 | Somalia | 23 t |
| 113 | Australia | 16 t |
| 114 | Congo - Brazzaville | 16 t |
| 115 | Mauritius | 11 t |
| 116 | Nauru | 10 t |
| 117 | El Salvador | 10 t |
| 118 | Rwanda | 9 t |
| 119 | Senegal | 8 t |
| 120 | Maldives | 7 t |
| 121 | Panama | 7 t |
| 122 | Dominican Republic | 6 t |
| 123 | Barbados | 5 t |
| 124 | Mongolia | 5 t |
| 125 | Chad | 4 t |
| 126 | Guatemala | 4 t |
| 127 | Trinidad & Tobago | 2 t |
| 128 | Faroe Islands | 1 t |
| 129 | Congo - Kinshasa | 1 t |
| 130 | Angola | 1 t |
| 131 | Chile | 1 t |
| 132 | Laos | 1 t |
| 133 | Kiribati | 1 t |
| 134 | Vanuatu | 1 t |
FAOSTAT trade data, 2024.
Top Barley Exporters
| Rank | Country | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Australia | 6,447,308 t |
| 2 | France | 5,598,167 t |
| 3 | Ukraine | 3,377,032 t |
| 4 | Germany | 3,315,442 t |
| 5 | Russia | 3,252,255 t |
| 6 | Argentina | 2,683,351 t |
| 7 | Canada | 2,570,841 t |
| 8 | Romania | 2,488,512 t |
| 9 | Kazakhstan | 1,599,807 t |
| 10 | Hungary | 888,249 t |
| 11 | Bulgaria | 859,082 t |
| 12 | United Kingdom | 628,942 t |
| 13 | Czechia | 427,027 t |
| 14 | Uruguay | 351,847 t |
| 15 | Türkiye | 332,975 t |
| 16 | Poland | 316,943 t |
| 17 | Lithuania | 300,737 t |
| 18 | Denmark | 298,478 t |
| 19 | United States | 180,897 t |
| 20 | Estonia | 175,357 t |
| 21 | Latvia | 155,152 t |
| 22 | Slovakia | 146,715 t |
| 23 | Croatia | 146,418 t |
| 24 | Moldova | 142,570 t |
| 25 | Belgium | 131,219 t |
| 26 | Serbia | 90,240 t |
| 27 | Netherlands | 87,928 t |
| 28 | Sweden | 86,487 t |
| 29 | United Arab Emirates | 59,137 t |
| 30 | Austria | 55,739 t |
| 31 | Spain | 53,087 t |
| 32 | Kenya | 47,342 t |
| 33 | Slovenia | 34,726 t |
| 34 | Ireland | 29,060 t |
| 35 | North Macedonia | 25,948 t |
| 36 | Portugal | 20,924 t |
| 37 | Finland | 16,848 t |
| 38 | Luxembourg | 10,817 t |
| 39 | Afghanistan | 9,913 t |
| 40 | South Africa | 8,987 t |
| 41 | Greece | 6,849 t |
| 42 | India | 4,530 t |
| 43 | Syria | 3,014 t |
| 44 | Italy | 2,259 t |
| 45 | Uganda | 1,628 t |
| 46 | Switzerland | 801 t |
| 47 | Kyrgyzstan | 540 t |
| 48 | Tanzania | 510 t |
| 49 | Zambia | 349 t |
| 50 | Lebanon | 224 t |
| 51 | Georgia | 180 t |
| 52 | Colombia | 150 t |
| 53 | Chile | 134 t |
| 54 | Algeria | 124 t |
| 55 | Morocco | 100 t |
| 56 | Azerbaijan | 100 t |
| 57 | Peru | 98 t |
| 58 | South Korea | 72 t |
| 59 | Norway | 50 t |
| 60 | Malaysia | 50 t |
| 61 | Singapore | 46 t |
| 62 | Ethiopia | 39 t |
| 63 | China | 38 t |
| 64 | Ecuador | 36 t |
| 65 | Djibouti | 29 t |
| 66 | New Zealand | 26 t |
| 67 | Japan | 24 t |
| 68 | Tunisia | 19 t |
| 69 | Egypt | 17 t |
| 70 | Lesotho | 12 t |
| 71 | Bosnia & Herzegovina | 12 t |
| 72 | Iran | 11 t |
| 73 | Guatemala | 10 t |
| 74 | Thailand | 4 t |
| 75 | Indonesia | 3 t |
| 76 | Trinidad & Tobago | 3 t |
| 77 | Sri Lanka | 1 t |
| 78 | Pakistan | 1 t |
| 79 | South Sudan | 1 t |
FAOSTAT trade data, 2024.
Frequently Asked Questions
- Barley: what is the latest price?
- The latest price is 5.86 USD/bu (United States, Aug 2026, monthly data, USDA NASS).
- Barley: how often is the price updated?
- agri.markets checks its sources every day and shows the newest value each of them has published. How often a value changes depends on the source; the period is shown next to the price.
- Barley: where does the price data come from?
- From USDA NASS, World Bank, Statistics Canada, and EU Agri-food Data Portal. Each regional page names its own source.
- Barley: is this a live or futures price?
- No. agri.markets shows benchmark and regional prices from public statistical sources, not real-time exchange quotes.
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