Barley Price in Ontario
Latest price
292.34 CAD/mt
Product: Barley · monthly farm price
Over the past 12 months it ranged from 244.11 CAD/mt (Sep 2025) to 304.22 CAD/mt (Apr 2026), +22.2% vs. a year earlier. +18.8% vs. Canada (average). The highest price among 9 reporting Canadian provinces (Aug 2026).
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.
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. Currency, unit and inflation conversions are explained in how agri.markets sources and calculates prices.
Price data table
Recent prices
| Period | Price (CAD/mt) | Change |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 2026 | 292.34 | +3.2% |
| Jul 2026 | 283.22 | +8.3% |
| Jun 2026 | 261.58 | -12.7% |
| May 2026 | 299.67 | -1.5% |
| Apr 2026 | 304.22 | +8.1% |
| Mar 2026 | 281.42 | -2.1% |
| Feb 2026 | 287.38 | +2.8% |
| Jan 2026 | 279.59 | +4.2% |
| Dec 2025 | 268.39 | +2.5% |
| Nov 2025 | 261.96 | +7.1% |
| Oct 2025 | 244.63 | +0.2% |
| Sep 2025 | 244.11 | +2.0% |
Annual averages
| Year | Average (CAD/mt) | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 (year to date) | 286.18 | +13.7% |
| 2025 | 251.65 | -12.8% |
| 2024 | 288.59 | -14.3% |
| 2023 | 336.57 | -8.6% |
| 2022 | 368.43 | +28.0% |
| 2021 | 287.73 | +19.9% |
| 2020 | 240.03 | -4.0% |
| 2019 | 250.01 | +4.5% |
| 2018 | 239.36 | +16.7% |
| 2017 | 205.17 | +10.5% |