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13 July 2021

The first official UK cereal and supply and demand estimates for the 2020/21 season were published this morning, including a wheat ‘deficit’ for the first time.

13 July 2021

A second 8Mt+ barley crop in two seasons, has again meant that exports are going to be key for the UK barley market. However, exporting this season is not straight forward, with a challenging global market, and strong export competition.

13 July 2021

The imposing of stricter lockdown measures that come into effect today will see the English hospitality sector limit the sale of alcohol to a takeaway only basis, with ‘eat-in’ meal occasions restricted until 2 December.

20 August 2021

As mentioned at our Grain Market Outlook conference a key parameter to observe this year is the impact of a La Niña weather event.

13 July 2021

The wheat balance sheet is set to be the tightest in a number of decades due to a significant drop in total availability outweighing a contraction in usage.

13 July 2021

For the year to date, sheep meat production and trade volumes have been lower than in 2019, however the trends have not been as strong as we expected.

30 January 2024

GB milk production for 2020/21 is now expected to reach 12.48bn litres, according to our September forecast update.

11 September 2020

Lower yields mean that costs per tonne will be higher for spring barley, winter wheat and oilseed rape (OSR) despite some lower input costs in the last 12 months.

12 July 2024

September 2020: In September, Germany announced its first confirmed case of ASF, which was found in a wild boar near the Polish border.

16 September 2020

Winter milling wheat returns the top crop (of those looked at) on a gross margin basis, with feed wheat dropping one place to third. This would suggest that there is, unsurprisingly, a strong incentive to plant wheat for harvest 2021, and ups the likelihood of an increased area.

30 January 2024

Sales of sexed dairy semen accounted for just over half of dairy semen sales in the year to March 2020, jumping up from a 32% share the previous year.

3 September 2020

We often talk about the relationship between rapeseed and soyabean prices in Grain Market Daily, because soyabeans represent almost 87% of the world’s export trade in oilseeds. This means soyabean supply, demand and prices impact rapeseed prices.

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