Content related to the sectors: cereals-oilseeds

24 March 2025

Corporate strategy

Explore our strategy and the consultations which lead to its formation.

24 March 2025

Sector plans

Explore our sector plans and learn more about the work we're doing in your area

23 June 2022

Why are global wheat prices sliding? Grain market daily

Global grain prices backed off again yesterday, with tightness concerns easing a touch from certain key exporters. So, what is behind this?

22 June 2022

Global harvest pressure to continue? Grain market daily

Huge volatility continues in global grain markets and continues to filter down into domestic prices. UK wheat futures (Nov-22) have fallen in three consecutive sessions, closing at £294.35/t yesterday and down £16.95/t since last Thursday.

23 June 2022

Unleashing the might in chitin for soil health

How chitinous by-product streams could help underpin soil health.

9 August 2022

New Zealand agricultural policy

Since the reform of its agricultural policies in the mid-1980s, production and trade distorting policies have almost disappeared in New Zealand, and the level of support to agricultural producers has been the lowest among OECD countries. The main focus of agricultural policies in New Zealand is on animal disease control, relief payments in the event of natural disasters, and the agricultural knowledge and information system.

8 September 2022

New Zealand trade and production

Historically New Zealand has been a crucial trading partner with the UK and is still an important trading partner across certain agricultural sectors. This article explores New Zealand’s production and trade of beef, lamb, pork, dairy, wheat, and barley, and for each sector compares export and import data with the UK in 2018‒2020

22 June 2022

A ‘ubiquitous’ future for early crop disease detection?

Understanding ‘ubiquitination’ could revolutionise disease management.

21 June 2022

EU yield prospects cut to below five-year average: Grain market daily

Estimated wheat and barley yields for harvest 2022 have been cut for the third month in a row by the European Commission in its latest crop monitoring report.

21 June 2022

Northern farmers discuss regenerative agriculture

Researchers tackle one of the biggest questions in farming – what does a ‘sustainable’ system look like?

21 June 2022

First opportunity to visit Strategic Cereal Farm Scotland

Strategic Cereal Farms Scotland Open day with hosts Johnnie Balfour and David Aglen

20 June 2022

Arable Market Report - 20 June 2022

Global wheat and rapeseed markets fell over the course of the last week.