Prairie Barley: Record 2025 Crop Sets Up a Complicated 2026 Marketing Year

Canadian producers harvested 9.7 million tonnes of barley in 2025 — a 19 percent jump over the previous year and the largest crop in recent memory. For Prairie barley growers, that number came with a mixed set of consequences: prices under pressure at harvest, carry-out stocks building to an eight-year high, and a marketing year defined as much by export demand as by local feedlot bids.