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11 September 2025

UK feed wheat futures (Nov-25) closed at £165.95/t yesterday, up £0.10/t from Tuesday’s close, while the May-26 contract fell by £0.40/t to £176.45/t.

9 September 2025

UK feed wheat futures (Nov-25) closed at £167.00/t yesterday, up £0.90/t (0.5%) from Friday’s close.

5 September 2025

Harvest 2025 has progressed well overall and is now complete in England, apart from a few pulses. Wheat is 99.8% complete, ahead of recent years and in line with 2022.

4 September 2025

UK feed wheat futures (Nov-25) closed at £166.95/t yesterday, down £0.90 (0.5%). The market found pressure from a rise in the sterling to US dollar exchange rate, with £1 now worth $1.3444 (LSEG).

3 September 2025

UK feed wheat futures (Nov-25) closed at £167.85/t yesterday, down £0.45/t from Monday’s close.

2 September 2025

UK feed wheat futures (Nov-25) closed down £1.20/t (0.7%) at £168.30/t yesterday. The May-26 contract fell £1.15/t yesterday, closing at £178.95/t.

29 August 2025

At the start of the 2025/26 wheat season, the influx of grain meant there was a need for wheat exports from the Northern Hemisphere to pick up pace to limit pressure on prices.

28 August 2025

The results of Defra’s 2025 June Survey of Agriculture, released this morning, show larger English wheat and oat areas but sharply less barley and oilseed rape.

27 August 2025

Earlier this week, the EU commission released its August crop monitoring report (MARS bulletin). With harvest of winter and spring crops largely complete for much of the continent, focus is now on summer crops such as maize, sunflowers and soyabeans.

26 August 2025

While there has been good progress in the past fortnight, AHDBs latest harvest progress report shows harvest 2025 remains challenging with extreme variability in yields.

26 August 2025

Stocks of wheat held by merchants, ports and co-operatives in the UK at the end of June 2025, plus on-farm in England and Wales were 35% lower than a year earlier and 12% lower than the five-year average.

22 August 2025

UK pig feed production fell 3.4% year-on-year in 2024/25 (Jul–Jun), a steeper drop than the 1.4% decline across the wider feed market.

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