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Cereals & Oilseeds
28 August 2025
The results of Defra’s 2025 June Survey of Agriculture, released this morning, show larger English wheat and oat areas but sharply less barley and oilseed rape.
4 November 2025
Join us for an informative morning focused on the benefits of using cover crops in a Scottish farming system.
27 August 2025
Earlier this week, the EU commission released its August crop monitoring report (MARS bulletin). With harvest of winter and spring crops largely complete for much of the continent, focus is now on summer crops such as maize, sunflowers and soyabeans.
26 August 2025
UK wheat futures (Nov-25) gained last week, up £1.05/t (0.6%) closing at £168.05/t on Friday. A slight fall in the value of the sterling against the dollar £1 = $1.3411 (LSEG) on Thursday, as well as buyers repositioning after recent lows, helped prices gain on the week.
26 August 2025
AHDB Environment Director Chris Gooderham looks back at the first year of our pioneering Environment Baselining Pilot.
26 August 2025
While there has been good progress in the past fortnight, AHDBs latest harvest progress report shows harvest 2025 remains challenging with extreme variability in yields.
27 August 2025
Cabbage stem flea beetle (CSFB) migration monitoring will take place at a network of sites across England this autumn.
26 August 2025
Stocks of wheat held by merchants, ports and co-operatives in the UK at the end of June 2025, plus on-farm in England and Wales were 35% lower than a year earlier and 12% lower than the five-year average.
21 August 2025
The Weed Resistance Action Group (WRAG) has identified more populations of Italian rye-grass in the UK that may be resistant to the herbicide glyphosate.
3 October 2025
Join Michael Blanche, a first-generation farmer, farm consultant, and podcaster, in a revolutionary workshop series that will help you rethink your relationship with time.
2 October 2025
Join Michael Blanche, a first-generation farmer, farm consultant, and podcaster, in a revolutionary workshop series that will help you rethink your relationship with time.
22 August 2025
UK pig feed production fell 3.4% year-on-year in 2024/25 (Jul–Jun), a steeper drop than the 1.4% decline across the wider feed market.