Cereals & Oilseeds
23 October 2025
Our Strategic Cereal Farms put cutting-edge research and innovation into practice on commercial farms around the UK.
13 July 2021
After an exciting week for markets last week, the benchmark new crop wheat and maize markets (Chicago and Paris), dipped slightly into the weekend.
2 July 2021
Paul Gosling, who leads the RL at AHDB, takes a look at the developing picture.
13 July 2021
In May, barley was in demand by both animal feed compounders and the human and industrial sectors.
7 March 2024
For much of the recent fall in prices, the potential for some more volatility on 30 June has been a key point to watch. In that regard, yesterday did not disappoint.
13 July 2021
Weather conditions in the next few weeks will contribute considerably to sentiment for rapeseed prices, especially with harvest imminent for European countries.
29 June 2021
From anthesis to xylem, discover the terms used to describe cereal growth.
30 June 2021
Some quality characteristics, such as nitrogen concentration, specific weight and screenings, are highly heritable in barley.
29 June 2021
Some quality characteristics, such as protein concentration, specific weight, Hagberg Falling Number (HFN), are highly heritable in wheat.
29 June 2021
Find out how to join the Recommended Lists (RL) Crop Committee for these crops.
21 July 2021
The UK milling wheat market is historically dependent on imports of high protein wheat. Over the past five seasons, the UK has imported an average of 371Kt of wheat from Canada each period. While trade statistics do not go to the detail of protein, we know anecdotally that these will be primarily high protein grades for the milling industry.
13 July 2021
Global wheat supply is set to exceed demand in 2020/21, with good conditions for many major exporters.
