Contents tagged with Analyst Insight

14 October 2021

The AHDB Grain Market Outlook, presented on Tuesday, provided an insight into what could happen throughout the 2021/22 marketing year. A live stream of the event can be watched here.

30 January 2024

Sizeable increases in input costs are challenging farm margins

7 October 2021

Global shipping costs have increased sharply since the Covid-19 pandemic began. Some freight rates are now over 290% higher than this time last year. Reports suggest there is little sign of when things will improve.

7 October 2021

Ammonia nitrate (AN) fertiliser prices are driven not only by demand of course, but also by supply, which itself is influenced by the cost of production.

30 January 2024

Milk delivered below buyer specifications could be costing GB dairy farmers millions.

1 October 2021

What are the fundamental reasons behind those high prices, and what will impact them over the coming months?

26 June 2025

The final 2020/21 UK cereals supply and demand estimate has been released today, with full datasets to the end of June now available. Overall, commercial ending stocks look tight for wheat and barley as we entered the 2021/22 season.

30 January 2024

GB milk production is now expected to reach 12.52bn litres for the 2021/22 milk year, down 0.2% on 2020/21.

10 September 2021

Tomorrow, at 5pm (UK time), the September USDA world agricultural supply and demand estimates (WASDE) report will be released.

2 September 2021

Over the course of the past six months, we have talked a lot about the price of rapeseed. Yesterday, the Nov-21 Paris rapeseed futures contract closed at €564.25/t. Prices have moved lower so far this week, but the Nov-21 contract remains €187.80/t ahead of the average of the previous 5 November contracts.

26 August 2021

Global oilseed values have gained a lot of support since the start of the pandemic. This has led to high domestic rapeseed prices.

19 August 2021

This morning, Defra released their provisional arable crop areas for England, as at 1 June. With improved conditions in Autumn 2020 for drilling, the Defra figures confirm a return to an arguably more balanced cereal cropping picture for harvest 2021.

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