Content related to the sectors: cereals-oilseeds

19 December 2024

Geology and soil formation

Learn about the geology of soil, including soil depth, stoniness, mineralogy, and texture.

13 October 2023

Soil classification (type)

Discover the make-up of different types of soil and how soil is classified.

26 June 2025

Analyst Insight: UK wheat balance tight, could high imports continue?

The final 2020/21 UK cereals supply and demand estimate has been released today, with full datasets to the end of June now available. Overall, commercial ending stocks look tight for wheat and barley as we entered the 2021/22 season.

23 September 2021

Continually Developing UK Cereal Supply and Demand Statistics

Over the past two years, AHDB has been leading the development of more accurate and timely data for the cereals and oilseeds supply chain.

4 January 2022

Septoria disease rating dip revealed by early RL dataset release

Disease ratings have declined for many winter wheat varieties, with the largest declines in varieties with Cougar in their parentages.

22 September 2021

Is EU wheat competitive enough? Grain market daily

This season (2021/22) the European Union is set to export 30Mt of wheat, according to the EU commission. Data released by the commission yesterday showed EU exports of common wheat totalled 6.53Mt from 01 July to 19 September.

21 September 2021

US harvest pressure weighs on prices: Grain market daily

The advancing US maize and soyabean harvests contributed to the fall in global grain and oilseed prices late last week and yesterday.

14 March 2022

Coronavirus: Events Protocol Documentation

COVID-19 KE Events Protocol

20 September 2021

Market Report - 20 September 2021

Most major grain futures contracts saw an uplift last week, Friday-to-Friday. This said, the rises were at the start of the week and prices flattened out, or even dropped off, towards the end.

20 September 2021

Are you spending too much on your farm machinery?

Several of AHDB’s cereal monitor farmers undertook a review of their farm machinery to see how they could save costs by better understanding their equipment spend.

17 September 2021

Low specific weights a problem for wheat: Grain market daily

This year’s provisional GB Cereal Quality Survey results show domestic milling wheat varieties have exhibited low specific weights, so far this season. The results of the Cereal Quality Survey captures data to 7 September.

29 January 2026

AHDB Agronomy Conference and Agronomists' Induction events

Find out how we deliver AHDB agronomy information