26 October 2020

Global grain markets continued to rally last week because of continued import demand by China and worries about planting conditions in the Black Sea, South America and Unites States.

23 October 2020

Over recent weeks and months, global wheat prices have gained momentum and UK wheat futures have risen as a result. One of the key drivers of this has been the high volume of large international grain tenders over the past few months, but will this continue?

23 October 2020

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.

22 October 2020

Understanding your rotation as whole is increasingly important. With that in mind my attention today turns to a part of the rotation that we wouldn’t typically cover, the market for pulses. Information for pulses is limited but recent data from Defra and information from PGRO and Pulses UK allows us to build a picture for harvest 2020.

21 October 2020

UK futures contracts have seen increases following a price rally in global wheat prices.

20 October 2020

Yesterday’s US crop progress report from the USDA was the latest piece of information to result in gains in global grain futures prices.

19 October 2020

This week's view of grain and oilseed markets, including a summary of both UK and global activity.

16 October 2020

Following the wheat and barley round ups yesterday and Wednesday, today we turn our attention to oilseeds.

15 October 2020

This marks the second of the three sector round-ups that are to be released this week following our Grain Market Outlook conference held virtually on Tuesday.

14 October 2020

The start of the 2020 wheat harvest campaign around the Black Sea was a disaster. Both Russia and Ukraine were reporting yields around 30% lower than a year ago after a prolonged dryness period in spring which damaged crops in the region substantially.

14 October 2020

This marks the first of the three sector round-ups that are to be released this week following our Grain Market Outlook conference held virtually yesterday. We hope you found the content useful and informative. Here, we examine three key sections including fundamentals that will affect future price direction for domestic wheat markets.

13 October 2020

Come and listen to this year’s Grain Market Outlook conference which is taking place by webinar at 10:30am this morning.

The AHDB Recommended Lists (RL) for cereals and oilseeds. Download the 2020/21 booklet and access other RL resources.

Find out what makes soil and how it is classified. Discover common soil-related issues and how to manage them.

Guidance to help you adapt arable cultivations on a rotational basis

Find out how to manage the most important diseases of wheat and barley

This definitive guide to cereal diseases in the UK contains full colour photgraphs for identification plus information on hosts, symptoms and life cycles.

Our fungicide performance work provides high-quality, independent information on the efficacy of fungicides against key diseases in wheat, barley and oilseed rape.

17 March 2020

The AHDB Nutrient Management Guide (RB209) offers best practice guidance on the application of mineral fertilisers, manures and slurries to crops and grassland.

This guide outlines oilseed rape’s key growth stages and can provide a foundation for management.

The AHDB Wheat growth guide allows crop progress, structure and final performance to be measured and compared against a series of UK benchmarks.

The aim of this guide is to enable barley growers to identify where production may be falling short of potential.

Access disease management guidance for oilseed rape from this page

The encyclopaedia provides information on the identification, risk factors, life cycle, monitoring, control thresholds, non-chemical control and insecticide resistance (where known) of major and minor pests commonly associated with cropping systems.

AHDB Aphid News provides regional information on aphid species and numbers. Download the latest edition below.

This definitive guide to arable weeds in the UK contains full colour photographs for identification plus information on life cycles, location, biology and management

Targeted at managers of arable-based systems who are thinking about livestock opportunities for the first time, this guide includes sections on leys, cover crops, forage crops, maize, outdoor pig production and manures.

Our Harvest Toolkit includes a wealth of information on grain prices, harvest results, straw, grain sampling practice, grain storage and grain marketing

This guide provides an introduction to carbon footprinting, explaining what information is used to calculate one and what can be done to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Technical e-newsletters for the arable industry.

A summary of research projects for both AHDB Cereals & Oilseeds and AHDB Potatoes

This arable magazine covers a variety of AHDB-funded activities