All articles about Crops markets and prices Advice and tips FINANCE6 ways arable farms can reduce business riskInsufficient income and tight cashflows remain the main problems on many arable farms, particularly when viewed against the likely tightening of support payments. The pressure points businesses will face over… CROPS MARKETS AND PRICESBusiness Clinic: How can options help cut grain price risk?Whether you have a legal, tax, insurance, management or land issue, Farmers Weekly’s Business Clinic experts can help. Here, Savills’ Andrew Wraith explains how options contracts can reduce grain price… CROPS MARKETS AND PRICESAnalysis: How UK growers can face Brexit challengesThe UK cereal sector needs to improve competitiveness to cope with the post-Brexit world. It also needs to improve productivity and develop better trust in the supply chain. Furthermore, the… SUGAR BEETSugar beet 'well placed' for post-quota worldSugar beet growers are being asked to consider a range of pricing options for the crop which will come into effect once quotas end in 2017. Options include maintaining the… See all Archive FINANCE6 ways arable farms can reduce business riskInsufficient income and tight cashflows remain the main problems on many arable farms, particularly when viewed against the likely tightening of support payments. The pressure points businesses will face over… CROPS MARKETS AND PRICESPolitics and currency exert influence on grain marketsDespite high global grain stocks, volatile world economics could present real selling opportunities in the short term, says Nidera UK’s Alan Dewar. While there is little getting away from the… CROPS MARKETS AND PRICESOversupply dominates new year grain price prospectsWith record world wheat production and carryover in 2015, this season was always going to need a helping hand from an abnormal event to push prices higher. Unfortunately, the reality… PULSESHow one farmer hopes to overcome poor crop prices in 2016High cereal yields came to the rescue in 2015 for one Oxfordshire arable farmer, who is being forced to reconsider his strategy for 2016 in light of poor prices and… See all Case studies CROPS MARKETS AND PRICESGet more for your grain with free online auction siteBoth merchants and growers are benefiting from a new free online grain trading site, developed in the South Downs by a grower and computer developer. Growers are saving time in… See all Insights FINANCE6 ways arable farms can reduce business riskInsufficient income and tight cashflows remain the main problems on many arable farms, particularly when viewed against the likely tightening of support payments. The pressure points businesses will face over… MARKETS AND TRENDSCan the grain price rises of recent weeks continue?A large-scale weather scare in a major producer can often trigger an upturn in grain prices on the back of a tangible risk to grain supplies. At other times it… CROPS MARKETS AND PRICESWeather could offer short-term selling opportunitiesGrowing concerns over emerging weather in some countries could give UK growers useful short-term selling opportunities, says COFCO UK trading director Stuart Shiells. After months of heavy global stocks smothering… POTATOESOutlook 2018: Opportunities for potato growers in processingNorthern Europe continues to be a threat to an already over-supplied UK market. While the weak pound reduces the competitiveness of European production, the cost of production in mainland Europe… See all News FARM ENERGYThreat to biofuel market defeated by farm lobby groupsA looming threat to cereal and rapeseed prices has been stopped after plans to cut the use of crop-based biofuels in the transport sector was abandoned by European politicians. A… MARKETS AND TRENDSGrain prices rise on weather worriesDry weather in some key grain producing areas around the world is pushing domestic prices ever higher. Between £145/t and £164/t ex-farm was being offered for new crop UK feed… CROPS MARKETS AND PRICESTight supply and currency push grain prices higherUK grain prices rose across the board in the week to Friday (11 May), driven by currency and tightening stocks in the final few weeks of the old crop year.… CROPS MARKETS AND PRICESTight grain market ups premiums and pulls in importsA stronger pound and tight end-of-season supplies have combined to draw wheat imports into the UK. The breadmaking wheat premium has doubled to almost £10/t over the past four weeks,… See all Video CROPS MARKETS AND PRICESUK barley exports keep up good paceUK barley exports continue at a good pace, with 26,000t of UK feed barley heading to Algeria through Gleadell Agriculture’s Immingham export facility. The 900 or so lorryloads it will… CROPS MARKETS AND PRICESVIDEO: Feed prices crippling pig industryStuart Bosworth, Farmers Weekly Pig Farmer of the Year 2011, talks about the rising costs of pig feed and how this is affecting the industry. With 60-70% of the cost… CROPS MARKETS AND PRICESGrain chain could save £42m a year to the benefit of allInefficiencies in the cereals supply chain are nothing new. But this winter an ambitious project linking farmers, hauliers, a grain trader and a leading miller showed how sharp things could… LIVESTOCKVideo: NFU president Peter Kendall urges farmers to be positiveFarmers need to continue to be positive about their futures but will need to ensure they use new technologies to improve efficiency to realise sustainable profits, Peter Kendall told visitors… See all
