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…

BUSINESS

Despite 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…

With 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…

BUSINESS

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…

BUSINESS

Growing 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…

CROPS MARKETS AND PRICES

Three farmer-owned co-operatives based in the south of England have merged to create a new grain storage and marketing firm Trinity Grain. The business brings together the membership and assets…

CROPS MARKETS AND PRICES

Domestic grain prices have reported fresh increases as yield forecasts across Europe continue to fall and a deterioration in the value of the pound made importing alternative products costlier. Feed…

BUSINESS

Fifteen percent more straw land has been baled this harvest than in 2017, according to a survey of more than 32,000ha of cereal and oilseed rape land by Savills. The…

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…