New maltster for AHDB cereals board
Iain Davies has been appointed to the AHDB Cereals & Oilseeds Board to represent the malting industry. He succeeds Bob King of Anglian Maltings in the role. Mr Davies is raw materials manager for Baird’s Malt, where he is responsible for buying approximately 300,000...
Rapeseed values rise on back of world oils market
UK rapeseed prices have risen recently, buoyed by a strong world oilseeds market and the reopening of one of the country’s biggest crushing plants after a long shutdown. But uncertainty, with no deal yet between the UK and EU over the trading relationship after...
NFU calls for 2020 arable support measures
The NFU’s annual harvest survey shows crop yields in line with the Defra provisional estimates released two weeks ago. The member survey results show that wheat and winter barley yields were 18% lower than from harvest 2019, with spring barley down 6% and oilseed rape...
PGRO to move from Recommended to Descriptive pea and bean lists
The levy-funded Processors and Growers Research Organisation (PGRO) is to change its annual Recommended List of pea and bean varieties to a Descriptive List from this autumn. It says the move will allow a more market-focussed, rather than yield-focused, approach to...
Wheat market mired in uncertainty
Political uncertainty and its potential effect on costs and currency values are affecting UK wheat trading, with buyers and sellers further apart than might be expected. “Pre-Christmas, most consumers seem comfortable with what they have bought,” Stuart Attridge,...
Global Crop Science Centre opens in Cambridge
The Crop Science Centre, an alliance between the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of Cambridge and NIAB, officially opened last week after three years planning. The Centre aims “to fast-track technologies to sustainably improve farmers’ yields worldwide”...