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Like wheat, barley is one of the first cultivated grains and is now grown widely with 1,100,000 hectares in the UK in 2016

The national bean crop typically covers around 170,000 hectares each year

Grassland is the UK's most important crop by area covering just over half of the entire UK

Also known as flax, highly nutritious

141,000 hectares were grown in the UK in 2016. Average yield is about 7 tonnes per hectare

Rape, with its distinctive yellow flowers, is the major UK oilseed crop with 580,000 hectares grown in 2016

In the UK around 50,000 hectares are grown annually for human consumption and around 70,000 for animal feed

142,000 hectares were grown in 2016. Average yield is around 42 tonnes per hectare

Rye is not grown in a large area, mainly in the south and east of the UK and accounts for about 30,000 hectares

86,000 hectares of sugar beet were grown in the UK in 2016. Average yield is currently about 83 tonnes per hectare

A cross between wheat and rye. Around 11,000 hectares were grown in 2016

Wheat is the main UK arable grain crop with around 2,000,000 hectares grown, 25% of which is exported.

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