With grain prices rising again after easing last week, Cedric Porter takes a look at the factors affecting the markets.
Dan Hawes grew up on an arable farm in Suffolk and now produces strawberry and raspberry plants for the UK fruit market with Blaise Plants, sister company to Hugh Lowe Farms, Kent. The business grows outside, under tunnels and in glasshouses and produces more than four million plants a year. The arable side includes environmental schemes, with a mix of wheat, oilseed rape, beans and barley crops
Company says more tests will be carried out post-harvest 2024
The continued wet weather could impact UK imports of wheat from Germany
Russia once again in driving seat as market dominance looks aet to continue
Prolonged rainfall risks leaving plants with 'lazy roots'
Concerns building for next year amid feed cost fears and seed shortages
Two farmers from the East Midlands reflected on how climate change was affecting them in practice during a recent Wheat Genetic Improvement Network discussion session
On one Leicestershire farm, wheat plantings were not as delayed as others, but they still suffered. Nevertheless, farmer Will Oliver remains committed to maximising their potential