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UK human and industrial cereal usage
Updated 15 January 2026
This information shows the use of cereals by flour millers, brewers maltsters and distillers and oat millers in the UK. It is used to produce the UK cereals supply and demand estimates.
Latest update
Flour millers
| Thousand tonnes | Nov 25 | Change on year (month) | Jul 25 to Nov 25 | Change on year (season) |
| Home grown milled | 327.0 | -4.5% | 1,740.7 | -4.1% |
| Imported milled | 79.1 | -46.0% | 511.3 | -24.9% |
| Total wheat milled | 406.1 | -17.0% | 2,252.2 | -9.8% |
| Wheat closing stocks | 193.2 | -12.7% | - | - |
| Total flour production (1) | 327.5 | -15.1% | 1,784.1 | -7.8% |
| Flour closing stocks | 45.4 | 8.9% | - | - |
Brewers, maltsters & distillers
| Thousand tonnes | Nov 25 | Change on year (month) | Jul 25 to Nov 25 | Change on year (season) |
| Barley usage | 125.1 | -16.6% | 617.9 | -14.8% |
| Wheat usage | 103.0 | -3.8% | 473.4 | -3.6% |
Oat millers
| Thousand tonnes | Jul 25 to Sep 25 | Change on year (month) | Jul 25 to Sep 25 | Change on year (season) |
| Oats milled | 132.8 | 10.3% | 132.8 | 10.3% |
| Oat closing stocks | 17.2 | -30.6% | - | - |
(1) Including starch and bioethanol.
Totals may not match the sum of individual items due to rounding.
Additional information
Next update scheduled for 5 February 2026.
AHDB survey flour millers, brewers, maltsters and distillers (BMD), bioethanol producers and oat millers from across the UK. Flour miller and BMD datasets are published monthly and oat millers quarterly.
| Month | Weeks* | Period start | Period end | Publish** |
| Jan | 4 | Sun 04 Jan 26 | Sat 31 Jan 26 | Thu 05 Mar 26 |
| Feb | 4 | Sun 01 Feb 26 | Sat 28 Feb 26 | Thu 02 Apr 26 |
| Mar | 5 | Sun 01 Mar 26 | Sat 04 Apr 26 | Thu 07 May 26 |
| Apr | 4 | Sun 05 Apr 26 | Sat 02 May 26 | Thu 04 Jun 26 |
| May | 4 | Sun 03 May 26 | Sat 30 May 26 | Thu 02 Jul 26 |
| Jun | 5 | Sun 31 May 26 | Sat 04 Jul 26 | Thu 06 Aug 26 |
| Jul | 4 | Sun 05 Jul 26 | Sat 01 Aug 26 | Thu 03 Sep 26 |
| Aug | 4 | Sun 02 Aug 26 | Sat 29 Aug 26 | Thu 01 Oct 26 |
| Sep | 5 | Sun 30 Aug 26 | Sat 03 Oct 26 | Thu 05 Nov 26 |
| Oct | 4 | Sun 04 Oct 26 | Sat 31 Oct 26 | Thu 03 Dec 26 |
| Nov | 4 | Sun 01 Nov 26 | Sat 28 Nov 26 | Thu 14 Jan 27 |
| Dec | 5 | Sun 29 Nov 26 | Sat 02 Jan 27 | Thu 04 Feb 27 |
* denotes the amount of weeks in the statistical month
** subject to revision
Information on how the data is collected and quality assured can be found here.
The summary tables above present a high-level selection of the usage and production categories published. To view all available categories, please download the full dataset.
Information from these human and industrial usage and production surveys, together with animal feed and cereal stocks datasets produced by AHDB, are used to underpin the AHDB UK cereals supply and demand estimates. Datasets produced by Defra, the Scottish Government, DAERA and HMRC are also critical in compiling these estimates.
All publications from the Defra Farming Statistics Team are available on GOV.UK, along with a publication release calendar listing all pre-announced dates for Defra’s farming statistics.
Contact us
This dataset was produced by our Data and Analysis Team. To find out more about the team, visit the Data and Analysis team page.
For further information please email the team at cereals.mi@ahdb.org.uk
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UK flour millers' cereal usage and production
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