All articles about Crops markets and prices

FINANCE

Insufficient 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…

BUSINESS

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…

BUSINESS MANAGEMENT

The 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…

CROPS MARKETS AND PRICES

Russia’s record-breaking export drive has finally slowed, but it could be too late for hopeful US and EU markets to benefit significantly, says Cofco UK trading director Stuart Shiells. World…

BUSINESS

The weather conspired in 2019 to give potato and sugar beet growers disappointing yields. The wet late spring and and summer drought led to late planting and drilling and this…

CROPS MARKETS AND PRICES

Last season was a stark reminder of the risks associated with high-input, high-output production strategies, as extreme weather challenged even the best arable businesses. A surge in commodity prices provided…

BUSINESS

Organic food and drink sales rose by 9.5% in 2018, to £2.2bn. The Soil Association’s annual Organic Market Report shows that the largest growth was in home delivery box schemes…

CROPS MARKETS AND PRICES

Farmer-owned grain marketing and inputs co-operative Openfield Group reported a better year to 30 June 2018, with a £400,000 pre-tax profit compared with the previous year’s £3.3m loss. The £3.7m…

CROPS MARKETS AND PRICES

Arable growers looking to market their breakcrop of beans have another option this season after Frontier Agriculture launched a new contract to meet rising demand from the commercial fish food…

BUSINESS

Stuart 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…

Inefficiencies 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…

Farmers 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…