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Cereals & Oilseeds
30 April 2020
May 2020 snapshot arable market update covering the pandemic consequences
30 April 2020
In unprecedented circumstances, it becomes increasingly important to draw out the implication of coronavirus for the UK market. One of the biggest talking points from a domestic consumer perspective has been the lack of flour on supermarket shelves. It is all too easy to assume that demand for wheat from the human and industrial (H&I) sectors is on the rise.
29 April 2020
Following a run of declines across the oilseed sector, there could be some short-term support for OSR prices on the horizon, stemming from improved crude and vegetable oil prices.
29 April 2020
Rain is forecast across much of Europe in the coming days and the latest European crop monitoring (MARS) report shows how needed it is, especially for spring crops.
28 April 2020
MI Director Phil Bicknell on how coronavirus lockdown is changing shopping habits
24 April 2020
To my mind there are four global weather situations playing out at the moment and a further one that is very much worth keeping an eye on.
23 April 2020
Feed barley markets have felt like they have tracked sideways. But is there pressure to come for the underlying feed market?
16 June 2020
During March, soya meal markets recorded elevated levels of support in the face of coronavirus. Global demand for feed increased, while global availability fell. Countries that had first entered lock-downs experienced large-scale logistical disruptions. Recently, with global soya supply at a high, soya meal prices have since retraced back to pre-March levels. This has provided some respite for the UK livestock industry, which makes use of imports for protein feed sources.
7 October 2025
Holly Chen describes the impact of COVID-19 on life and business in China as the country recovers from the outbreak
21 April 2020
In 2019/20 the UK produced its largest oat crop of the 21st century, at 1.08Mt, a record that could seemingly be broken this season. A torrid winter for many has seen expectations of spring plantings increase exponentially. For oats the February re-run of the early bird survey suggested that oat plantings in the UK could reach as much as 229Kha, the largest area planted to the crop since 1976.
21 April 2020
For the first time in history yesterday we saw the price of US oil turn negative. Meaning that oil producers were paying buyers to take the commodity away, as there were fears over storage capacity could run out.
29 May 2020
Our Market Intelligence Director Phil Bicknell on the wider economic implications of the COVID-19 outbreak