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Cereals & Oilseeds
24 July 2024
The La Niña weather situation often leads to major changes in global weather patterns, affecting grain and oilseed production and so prices.
24 July 2024
Hemlock is a significant risk to livestock due to its highly toxic nature. Effective management involves a combination of prevention, mechanical control, chemical control, and ongoing monitoring.
12 November 2024
Last Friday (05 July), Paris rapeseed futures (Nov-24 and May-25) closed at highs not seen since November 2022.
12 September 2024
Earlier this year, as part of our Education work to build children’s confidence in cooking and nutrition, we launched an innovative initiative to provide free ingredients to schools.
16 July 2024
Join this online session to learn more about our school farm visits support programme, with Roz Reynolds (AHDB Head of Education) and Fiona Rust (LEAF Education Manager).
11 July 2024
Speculative traders are once again hold net-short positions, which can be used to profit from falling prices, across most key grain and oilseed futures markets.
9 July 2024
Some sectors across agriculture are already seeing increasing requirements for farming businesses from supply chain actors, including carbon footprinting and incentives to cut emissions. Perhaps an insight into the future for others?
16 January 2025
After declining prices through much of June, global wheat markets saw a gain last week (Friday-Friday), driven mainly by increase in US export demand, partly due to the rapid harvest.
24 July 2024
We are increasing the number of places available to new host farmers for our school farm visits support programme, following a successful pilot last year.
9 July 2024
How a farm in Cumbria is integrating agroforestry in a rotational grazing system
5 July 2024
Our latest Planting and Variety survey, conducted from 15 April to 14 June 2024, shows a dramatic decline in cereals and oilseed rape (OSR) planted in Great Britain (GB) this year – down by 5% in 2024 to the lowest level for over two decades.
5 July 2024
AHDB’s Planting and Variety survey for harvest 2024 has been published today, estimating a rise in barley and oats areas and a reduction for wheat and oilseed rape (OSR) areas.