CropsHeat and drought cut England's combined wheat, barley, oat and rapeseed harvest to 16.03 million tonnes, below the 2020 low, with oats down 29% and barley down 11%.
CropsWinter wheat averaged 3.85 tonnes an acre against 4.3 last year, a wet January and summer drought hit crops, and malting barley quality suffered as tillage farmers face high costs and poor prices.
CropsOntario's Jeff Cook topped the 2025-26 Great Lakes Yield Enhancement Network with 163.2 bushels per acre and Laurent Van Arkel reached 108% of his field's yield potential, while participants averaged 112 bushels per acre in a difficult season.
CropsBased on 1,622 on-farm trials from 2014 to 2024, ICAR's Directorate of Weed Research puts average yield loss to weeds at 13.43%, down from about 25% in its 2018 estimate, thanks to better weed-control options.
CropsAfter a year of floods, a season of suitable temperatures and a 35% July rain surplus has given paddy growers in south Kashmir a crop many say they have not seen in 15 years, though rice land in the Valley keeps shrinking.
A Peking University team says water passed over sunlight-activated minerals raised yields of rice, wheat, sugar cane and sweet potato in field trials, but the figures have not been independently reviewed.
FruitsA Langley grower expects just over a million pounds from 34 acres, about 29,412 pounds an acre against last year's provincial average of 21,273, after good pollination and a temperate summer.
CropsLate frosts, warm nights and wildfire smoke have cut yields across Idaho's potato crop, though growers and the state potato commission say quality is consistent.
CropsEarly harvest reports in Maryland and Pennsylvania show corn yields of 180 to 220 bushels an acre, better than many growers expected after spring and summer rainfall ran at about half of normal.
CropsAHDB's final harvest update puts UK winter wheat at 6.9 t/ha, about 11 percent below the five-year average, spring barley 17 percent below and oats 14 percent below, while oilseed rape averaged 4.0 t/ha, 19 percent above.
Field trials at the University of Lleida found pre-flowering heat cut grain numbers most, while plants hit early suffered less from a second heat wave.
CropsAHDB's final harvest report shows wheat down 11% and oats 14% below the five-year mean, while oilseed rape came in 19% above it at 4 t/ha.
CropsAsked for one word to describe the corn and soybean harvest, agronomists across the Midwest most often chose 'variable', with yields swinging by field on how much rain the crop caught.
