During the last week of June 2026, 559 metric tons of new-crop barley were exported from Moldova at the price indicated above. All shipments in June were handled by a single company—“AVVATERRA-SM”—under DAP Reni terms, with Cyprus listed as the final destination.
“The starting price is lower than last year’s, reflecting both the pressure from the expected bumper harvest and the general trend of price corrections in the regional grain market due to attacks on port infrastructure in the Azov and Black Seas, as well as on ships in the roadstead,” said Iurie Rija, an agromarketing expert and director of the “Agrocereale” Association of Grain Producers and Exporters.
As he noted to Logos Press, the price difference at the start of the season is particularly striking when viewed against the backdrop of “last year’s anomaly”: high demand for barley, a “niche grain,” led to it being more expensive than wheat during certain periods of the 2025/26 marketing year.
The start of Moldovan barley exports in the new marketing season comes amid optimistic expectations for a bumper 2026 harvest. As of the second half of July of this year, the average barley yield in Moldova, according to expert estimates, stands at a record 6 metric tons per hectare, with the minimum yield in many cases at 5 metric tons per hectare. In other words, the gross harvest of this grain will almost certainly exceed the average of recent years.
