Barley
Annual acres planted and harvested, production, yield, price received (overall and split by malting and feed use), and value of production for barley, every state and the United States, plus Idaho's county breakdown, from USDA NASS Quick Stats.
Figures
Source: USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service, Small Grains Summary and Agricultural Prices, barley. Data period 2026. Published .
| Measure | Value | Period |
|---|---|---|
| Barley acres harvested2026 | 430,000 acres | 2026 |
| Barley acres planted2026 | 460,000 acres | 2026 |
| Barley production2026 | 52.89 million bushels | 2026 |
| Barley yield2026 | 123 bushels per acre | 2026 |
| Barley price received2025 | $5.66 per bushel | 2025 |
| Barley value of production2025 | $301.8 million | 2025 |
Pages built on this dataset
Publisher
- Organization
- USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service
- Publisher’s dataset
- Small Grains Summary and Agricultural Prices, barley
- File or API used
- https://quickstats.nass.usda.gov/
- Methodology
- https://www.nass.usda.gov/Surveys/Guide_to_NASS_Surveys/Small_Grains/
Coverage
- Geography
- 50 states, the United States, and Idaho counties
- Time coverage
- 1866-2026
- Update frequency
- Annual
- Published
- September 2026
- Retrieved
- September 15, 2026
- License of the records
- Public domain. U.S. federal government work.
- Rows
- 35,258 observations, 1866-2026
Measures
| Measure | What it measures | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Barley acres harvested | Barley acreage harvested in the year. | acres |
| Barley acres planted | Barley acreage planted in the year. | acres |
| Barley production | Barley production, measured in bushels, for the year. | bushels |
| Barley yield | Barley production per acre harvested, for the year. | bushels per_acre |
| Barley price received | Season-average price growers received per bushel of barley, for the marketing year. | usd per_bushel |
| Barley value of production | Barley production valued at the season-average price received, for the year. | usd |
| Barley price received by use | Season-average price growers received per bushel of barley, by malting or feed use, for the marketing year. | usd per_bushel |
Caveats
- This is a sample survey estimate, not a full enumeration, and is revised in later NASS releases.
- Understand Idaho pulls this series through USDA's Quick Stats programmatic API, which requires a registration key. The interactive tool linked above needs no key and returns the same figures.
- Price received is for the marketing year, which runs past the calendar year the crop was harvested in, so it is published later than that year's acreage and production.
- Malting and feed price received are two separate prices for barley sold for two different end uses, not parts of one total; they are never added together or shown as a percentage split.
- Idaho county figures are withheld in most counties in most years to avoid disclosing a small number of operations, so the counties shown vary year to year.
Where sources disagree
- Barley value of production, Idaho, 2025: USDA Economic Research Service, Farm Income and Wealth Statistics publishes $287.8 million. This dataset's 2025 value of Idaho barley production ($301,840,000) values the year's crop at the season-average price NASS estimates for it. The Economic Research Service's cash receipts figure is money Idaho barley growers actually received during calendar year 2025, which can be higher or lower than that year's crop value depending on carryover inventory and when sales occurred. Both figures are correctly sourced; they answer different questions about the same crop-year.
How to cite
Understand Idaho, “Small Grains Summary and Agricultural Prices, barley”, compiled from USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service, Small Grains Summary and Agricultural Prices, barley. Retrieved September 15, 2026. https://understandidaho.com/data/nass-barley/.
Cite USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service directly for the figures themselves.
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