Overview
- Output of wheat, oats, spring and winter barley, and oilseed rape fell about 20% versus the 10-year average.
- ECIU pegs the revenue shortfall at about £828m using per-hectare yields, current farm-gate prices, and a UK estimate extrapolated from England data.
- The Met Office says the record 2025 heat and drought made such conditions far more likely due to human-driven climate change.
- Defra’s provisional figures ranked England’s 2025 harvest second-worst on record, and the department points to an expanded nature-friendly farming budget.
- Farm groups warn rising input costs and stalled green payments are squeezing viability, with cumulative weather-linked losses since 2020 now above £2bn and a profitability review due before Christmas.