Cereals & Oilseeds

11 March 2024

Find out about the opportunities and challenges to recruiting new entrants into agriculture.

22 February 2024

Join us, in collaboration with Catchment Sensitive Farming (CSF), for an informative day focused on integrating soil biology, physics and chemistry as part of the soil health scorecard.

22 January 2024

There are signs that pressure on European, and so UK, wheat prices from Black Sea exports could be starting to ease.

18 January 2024

Speculative traders still hold large net-short positions in Chicago wheat and maize futures, which can be seen as predicting a bearish outlook for wheat and maize prices.

25 January 2024

The escalation of the Israel/Gaza conflict in the Middle East, with US/UK retaliation against Iran backed Houthi attacks on commercial shipping in the Red Sea, and the subsequent rerouting of commercial shipping, is likely to impact the UK over the coming weeks and months.

16 January 2024

Up to 50 new actions will be launched in Summer 2024. Payment rates will also be increased by an average of 10% for the SFI and Countryside Stewardship (CS) agreements, and a premium paid for high ambition actions.

15 January 2024

Global grain markets were pressured last week, largely on the back of sluggish export demand and indications of plentiful feed grain supplies moving forward.

2 January 2025

More poultry feed was produced in November 2023 than in November 2022, by GB animal feed compounders and UK Integrated Poultry Units (IPUs).

12 January 2024

The booklet comes with a fresh new look, following feedback from the 2023 RL review.

11 January 2024

Imported AN (34.5% N) was quoted for December at £354/t. Though this is just back another £5/t from November’s quoted price, this signifies the third month on month reduction in the imported AN value.

23 February 2024

Further information regarding Environmental Land Management schemes (ELMs) was announced at this year’s Oxford Farming Conference.

10 January 2024

Throughout the months of September and October, both the May-24 and Nov-24 UK feed wheat futures were trading at a discount to the respective comparable Paris milling wheat futures.

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