Throughout harvest 2025, we are updating our handy interactive map with the latest data from the AHDB’s winter barley Recommended List harvest results.

Use the map below to find the five highest-yielding winter barley varieties at your nearest AHDB Recommended List trials site.

See also: Last year’s 5 top-yielding winter barley varieties

Winter barley summary

The harvest results from nine of 16 fungicide-treated AHDB Recommended Lists (RL) winter barley trials have been published today with the average fungicide-treated yield of control varieties (9.44 t/ha) 0.3 t/ha below the five-year average (9.74t/ha). 

Varieties

In the fungicide-treated trials the six-row hybrid varieties are performing well with Kingsbarn and newly recommended varieties Quantock and Inys (108%) highest yielding, followed closely by Canyon (107%).

Kestrel, the first six-row hybrid variety recommended with resistance to barley yelow dwarf virus is on 105%. In the fungicide-untreated trials, Quantock and Nephin are highest yielding of the six-row hybrids (106%), with Canyon next highest on 105%.

The six-row conventional varieties with tolerance to BYDV are also performing well in the fungicide-treated trials so far, with newly recommended Sixy on 104% and Integral on 103%, however it is the older variety Feeris (105%) that is performing especially well in these early trials, well above its five-year average.

Caravelle and Capitol are the highest yielding two-row feed varieties in the fungicide-treated trials on 106%, with Caravelle also highest yielding in the fungicide-untreated trials (113%).

Newly recommended Rosemary, which is only recommended for the North is just behind on 105%, and second highest yielding in the fungicide-untreated trials (109%) though as a regional variety it is not present in all these trials. Carpenter, which has a specific recommendation for tolerance of BYDV, but is only recommended for the East and West regions is behind in the fungicide-treated trials at 104%. 

Other newly recommended two-row varieties show lower yields. Valencis (103%) is on the same yield as SU Arion, which is only recommended for the East and North regions and NOS Olena. Heraclis which is recommended only for the North and Kitty are both on 102%. All these varieties are below their five-year average, but there is time for them to recover ground.

• Updated 24 July 2025