Helen Plant
Senior Analyst (Cereals & Oilseeds)
Email: helen.plant@ahdb.org.uk
The core of our role as analysts is offering insights into what’s happening in grain and oilseed markets, why, and what might influence prices next. Good information and insights are crucial for making informed decisions, and we want to support you with the best information and insights we can. To do this we look at a wide range of information, both from across the world and the UK.
Helen grew up involved with her family’s two businesses, breeding pedigree sheep and butchery, and studied at Agri-Food Marketing at Harper Adams. She joined AHDB in 2009, having previously worked promoting local food.
Potential speaker and discussion topics from AHDB’s market intelligence team
- Global supply and demand analysis of Cereal and Oilseed markets.
- Milling wheat markets and futures challenges for domestic producers & consumers.
- Marketing strategies for cereals and oilseeds; how best to manage volatile markets.
- Oat market analysis and future challenges for domestic producers and consumers
Other Articles from Helen Plant
Cereals & Oilseeds Sector
- Will the USDA forecast heavy supplies in 2023-24? Grain market daily
- UK produced AN price fall slowed in April: Grain market daily
- Contrasting crop fortunes continue: Grain market daily
- Putting Midwest weather worries in context: Analyst insight
- Dry weather and Black Sea talks driving markets: Grain market daily
- Could US maize yields drive prices up? Grain market daily
- Grain prices fall after USDA raises US crop forecasts: Grain market daily
- UK wheat futures rise after latest air strikes on Ukraine: Grain market daily
- Quality worries in Europe as rain stalls harvest: Grain market daily
- Black Sea contrasts – expanding crops but access uncertain: Grain market daily
- Nitrogen fertiliser prices up in July – is there more to come? Grain market daily
- More wheat and barley, but lower oat stocks at end-June: Grain market daily
- GB harvest makes good progress, but variable quality: Grain market daily
- Australian wheat crop trimmed with more dry weather ahead: Grain market daily
- Exports off to slower start in 2023/24: Grain market daily
- More rises for AN prices in August: Grain market daily
- Animal feed demand still sluggish while malting starts strongly: Grain market daily
- Analyst Insight: Speculative traders betting on wheat and maize price falls
- Bread wheat and malting barley premiums still elevated: Grain market daily
- Markets rise after USDA shrinks US crops: Grain market daily
- Smallest UK oat crop for seven years: Grain market daily
- Lower quality from 2023 harvest confirmed: Grain market daily
- New crop wheat futures on the rise: Grain market daily
- Bioethanol and starch demand stayed strong in September: Grain market daily
- Poor autumn conditions see a rise in spring cropping for harvest 24: Grain market daily
- Weather swaying prices as speculative traders react: Grain market daily
- Analyst Insight: UK old crop prices helped by new crop worries
- Canadian and Australian crops increased: Grain market daily
- Sterling strength weighs on UK prices: Grain market daily
- The half way point of 2023/24: Grain market daily
- Poultry feed production edged up in November: Grain market daily
- Speculative traders still betting on price falls: Grain market daily
- Is Black Sea price pressure easing? Grain market daily
- Price carry into new crop stretching: Grain market daily
- UK wheat stocks to rise despite smaller crop: Analyst Insight
- US area battle could impact new-season prices: Grain market daily
- Slower start to French planting as US stocks weigh: Grain market daily
- Rapid UK oat exports in first half of 2023/24: Grain market daily
- UK futures on course for first weekly rise of 2024: Grain market daily
- Wet soils persist for key European grain producers: Grain market daily
- Could India return as a wheat importer in 2024/25? Grain market daily
- Spring barley planting still stalled in France: Grain market daily
- Rapeseed futures near four-month highs: Grain market daily
- Weaker sterling boosts UK wheat futures: Grain market daily
- UK wheat imports rise with crops looking poor: Analyst Insight
- More imported wheat milled in February 2024: Grain market daily
- US wheat ratings steady despite dry weather: Grain market daily
- Global grain crop and stock projections cut: Grain market daily
- Dry Russian winter wheat areas in focus: Grain market daily
- GB winter crops show some improvement from March: Grain market daily
- Mixed market expectations for USDA’s first 2024/25 forecasts: Grain market daily
- Wheat markets shifting on crop prospects: Grain market daily
- Arable Market Report - 20 May 2024
- Funds buy on weather worries: Analyst Insight
- Stronger sterling hampering UK feed wheat futures: Grain market daily
- Arable Market Report - 28 May 2024
- Time to think new, new crop prices? Grain market daily
- Could the good start for US maize weigh on markets? Grain market daily
- Warmest May on record benefited UK crop growth: Grain market daily
- More export competition for EU wheat after Turkish ban? Grain market daily
- US prices gain as temperatures forecast to rise: Grain market daily
- Heatwave expected in Europe as yield expectations dip: Grain market daily
- Canadian wheat and barley areas fall: Grain market daily
- Wheat resisting maize’s decline for now: Grain market daily
- Speculative traders back to bearish bets: Grain market daily
- Smallest EU-27 wheat crop since 2018: Grain market daily
- Yields contrast as UK harvest advances: Grain market daily
- Wheat stocks sharply higher year-on-year: Grain market daily
- Lower proteins persist as wheat harvest presses on: Grain market daily
- Malting premiums sharply lower on the year: Grain market daily
- Less wheat milled to start the new season: Grain market daily
- Missile strike underpins wheat markets: Grain market daily
- Funds cover shorts amid crop uncertainty: Grain market daily
- Stronger sterling could challenge UK grain prices: Grain market daily
- Could the Black Sea export pace slow? Grain market daily
- Highest uncropped arable area in England since 2003: Grain market daily
- Cattle and sheep propping up GB feed demand: Grain market daily
- Wheat markets rise on production worries: Grain market daily