26 June 2024

Building Resilience into your Rotation: Grain market daily

After a challenging growing season, could adjusting your rotation or business help increase its resilience?

26 June 2024

How have wheat net margins fared over the past five years? Grain market daily

With significant price fluctuations over the last few years, and increasing costs, how have net margins for UK wheat farmers been impacted?

26 June 2024

Can UK wheat compete on the international stage? Grain market daily

In this final article, we analyse the cost of production (sum of all costs to produce that crop) and net margin (income less all costs, before subsidies) achieved by each nation and consider how we see the UK competing in the future

26 June 2024

Better returns from Budgeting: Grain market daily

Budgeting meetings focused on the coming harvest and what challenges that may bring, helped Arable Business Group members consider their next steps.

26 June 2024

How do UK ex-farm winter wheat prices compare internationally? Grain market daily

As highlighted in the first and second articles of this series, AHDB submits data representing a range of ‘typical’ UK farms into an international benchmark database each year.

26 June 2024

How do UK wheat overhead costs stack up internationally: Grain market daily

How the UK stacks up internationally in terms of overheads, in particular labour, machinery, and land costs.

26 June 2024

Analyst Insight: Grain Market Outlook Conference presents picture of squeezed margins

Yesterday, we held our annual Grain Market Outlook (GMO) Conference in York. The theme of the day was optimising business potential. Within the market outlook session, we were able to release the latest insights on the full economic cost of production and margin picture for both harvest 2023 and harvest 2024, which I am going to delve into for today’s grain market daily.