Content related to the sectors: cereals-oilseeds

27 August 2025

Warmer EU weather to hamper the regions maize crop? Grain market daily

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

Arable Market Report - 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

One year into the AHDB baselining pilot – What have we learned?

AHDB Environment Director Chris Gooderham looks back at the first year of our pioneering Environment Baselining Pilot.

26 August 2025

Harvest 2025 into the latter stages: Grain market daily

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

OSR monitoring part of new CSFB project

Cabbage stem flea beetle (CSFB) migration monitoring will take place at a network of sites across England this autumn.

26 August 2025

Record-high imported and low home-grown wheat stocks: Grain Market Daily

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.

23 January 2026

More potential cases of glyphosate resistance in Italian rye-grass

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

Newbury; Farm Planning – Time for Success with Michael Blanche

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

Hampshire; Farm Planning – Time for Success with Michael Blanche

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 2024/25 - declines, recovery and the road ahead: Grain market daily

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.

26 August 2025

You don’t need to be a benchmarker to benefit from Farmbench (but it helps)

Julie Clark provides an overview of Farmbench, including how its benefits extend far beyond the sphere of seasoned benchmarkers.

24 November 2025

Monitoring of contaminants in UK cereals used for processing food and animal feed (2025–27)

An annual survey of the incidence and levels of key mycotoxins and other contaminants in representative commercial samples of UK-grown wheat, barley and oats and co-products.