Contents tagged with Analyst Insight

12 November 2021

The latest official fertiliser prices show a sharp increase in September, with further strong rises reported since

11 November 2021

Recent US bioethanol demand has been strong. With an average of 36% of US maize used for ethanol over the past 2 marketing seasons, strong demand supports Chicago maize prices.

4 November 2021

The threat of a smaller US maize area in 2022 is one of the factors supporting new crop UK wheat prices.

21 October 2021

Whenever we talk about bullish markets, China is often at the epicentre of discussion.

14 October 2021

The AHDB Grain Market Outlook, presented on Tuesday, provided an insight into what could happen throughout the 2021/22 marketing year. A live stream of the event can be watched here.

30 January 2024

Sizeable increases in input costs are challenging farm margins

7 October 2021

Global shipping costs have increased sharply since the Covid-19 pandemic began. Some freight rates are now over 290% higher than this time last year. Reports suggest there is little sign of when things will improve.

7 October 2021

Ammonia nitrate (AN) fertiliser prices are driven not only by demand of course, but also by supply, which itself is influenced by the cost of production.

30 January 2024

Milk delivered below buyer specifications could be costing GB dairy farmers millions.

1 October 2021

What are the fundamental reasons behind those high prices, and what will impact them over the coming months?

23 September 2021

The final 2020/21 UK cereals supply and demand estimate has been released today, with full datasets to the end of June now available. Overall, commercial ending stocks look tight for wheat and barley as we entered the 2021/22 season.

30 January 2024

GB milk production is now expected to reach 12.52bn litres for the 2021/22 milk year, down 0.2% on 2020/21.

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