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UK human and industrial cereal usage
Updated 4th December 2025
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 | Oct 25 | Change on year (month) | Jul 25 to Oct 25 | Change on year (season) |
| Home grown milled | 332.3 | -5.7% | 1,413.7 | -4.0% |
| Imported milled | 98.7 | -28.2% | 432.2 | -19.1% |
| Total wheat milled | 431.0 | -12.0% | 1,846.1 | -8.0% |
| Wheat closing stocks | 205.8 | -9.9% | - | - |
| Total flour production (1) | 341.5 | -9.6% | 1,456.6 | -5.9% |
| Flour closing stocks | 47.0 | 16.9% | - | - |
Brewers, maltsters & distillers
| Thousand tonnes | Oct 25 | Change on year (month) | Jul 25 to Oct 25 | Change on year (season) |
| Barley usage | 115.9 | -18.4% | 492.8 | -14.3% |
| Wheat usage | 98.1 | 8.2% | 370.4 | -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 15th January 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. Please view the AHDB usage survey calendar for upcoming reporting dates, along with information on how the data is collected and quality assured.
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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