Content related to the sectors: cereals-oilseeds

18 September 2020

Business continuity planning: react, respond and recover

Resilient businesses can react faster and more efficiently to a sudden disruption – the sort of thing that can happen at any moment

7 March 2025

Team communication for farm businesses

Good communication is one of the most important skills to have in business and can have a big impact on productivity

26 April 2024

Sterling collapses, but is a further fall on the way? Grain Market Daily

The path of currency has been pivotal to the value of domestic agricultural prices in recent weeks. The 4.4% devaluation in the value of sterling against the dollar between 1 Sep and 11 Sep, pushed UK feed wheat futures (nearby) up £7.65/t.

16 September 2020

Negotiating for success

25 September 2020

Early egg counts reveal wheat bulb fly risk divide in 2020

Our autumn survey frequently detects large variations in wheat bulb fly egg numbers, both across and between regions

29 August 2025

Negotiating for success

The art of negotiation is about having a strategic discussion to reach an agreement that both parties find acceptable.

22 September 2020

Net blotch management in barley: Net form or spot form – does it matter?

This disease comes in two key forms and this has implications for management.

15 September 2020

What’s happening in Canada, a key wheat exporter to the UK? Grain Market Daily

Yesterday, Statistics Canada released their revised crop production estimates. The release estimated total wheat production at 34.1Mt an increase of 5.6% year-on-year, but 1.6Mt down on last month’s estimate.

11 September 2020

Have you thought about your marketing strategy for 2021/22?

In this article I want to discuss what the future could potentially hold for markets of wheat, barley and oilseed rape.

11 September 2020

Analyst Insight: Lower yields predicted to push up unit costs of production

Lower yields mean that costs per tonne will be higher for spring barley, winter wheat and oilseed rape (OSR) despite some lower input costs in the last 12 months.

16 September 2020

Analyst Insight: Wheat top of the crops - 2021 Gross margins

Winter milling wheat returns the top crop (of those looked at) on a gross margin basis, with feed wheat dropping one place to third. This would suggest that there is, unsurprisingly, a strong incentive to plant wheat for harvest 2021, and ups the likelihood of an increased area.

11 September 2020

UK wheat area to recover for harvest 2021? Grain Market Daily

The GB wheat area for harvest 2020 is expected to be the lowest in over 40 years. The extremely wet weather last autumn significantly limited the area sown to all winter crops. However, current expectations are for the area planted to wheat for harvest in 2021 to rebound.