Newly Available - 2024 Barley Production and Quality of Western Canadian Malting Barley Report

Growing malting barley in 2025? This new report from Canadian Grain Commission presents valuable information that helps making decisions for 2025 malt barley crop.

The report provides overall production statistics for Western Canadian barley, including average yield by province, variety acreage trends and distribution of barley classes by province. The report also offers detailed quality data for individual malt barley varieties, such as AAC Synergy, CDC Copeland and the common malt varieties.

Figure 1. Comparison of the area seeded with the top malting barley varieties in western Canada from 2019 to 2024.