Contents tagged with Grain Market Daily
5 September 2024
Natural gas prices in Europe have gone up a lot lately. The European natural gas futures for October 2024 reached €45.15/MWh on 9 August, the highest since December 2023 and 36% more than the average price this year (1 Jan – 4 Sep).
4 September 2024
On Monday, the latest quarterly Australian Crop Report was released by ABARES (part of Australia’s Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry) with revisions to estimates made in June.
3 September 2024
Ex-farm malting barley prices so far in 2024/25 are sharply lower than in the early months of last season (AHDB).
30 August 2024
With the 2024 UK wheat harvest now into its closing stages, lower protein levels continue to be reported.
29 August 2024
The areas for wheat, winter barley and oilseed rape are estimated down by 11%, 17% and 27% respectively. These falls are only partly offset by the areas of spring barley and oats, which are estimated to increase on the year by 28% and 11% respectively.
28 August 2024
On Monday (26 August), the European Commission released its monthly MARS report regarding crop development in EU member states and several neighbouring countries.
23 August 2024
We take an initial look at how much wheat could be produced this year in the UK, ahead of Defra’s provisional estimate of area in England next week.
22 August 2024
Stocks of wheat held by merchants, ports and co-operatives in the UK at the end of June 2024, plus on-farm in England and Wales were sharply higher than a year earlier.
21 August 2024
As at the week ending 14 August, 37% of the UK’s wheat harvest was complete. While the specific weight and hagberg falling number results are encouraging, early reports of milling wheat protein is disappointing.
20 August 2024
Further currency movements will be influenced by a range of factors including the state of the EU economy, political stability both in the EU and the UK and the timing of future interest rate cuts here in the UK.
16 August 2024
Winter cereal and oilseed rape yields have continued to disappoint as the UK harvest advances, while early reports for spring cereal yields are encouraging.
16 August 2024
Last week, the latest UK human and industrial cereal usage figures were released, providing a look at data for the entire 2023/24 marketing year.