The AHDB has pledged to provide independent evidence on the value of farm assurance, to inform discussions over the future development of UK assurance schemes. The move follows the row sparked by last week’s Red Tractor proposals to...
The UK faces a wheat shortfall in the new marketing year, but it is going to be against a background of a well supplied world market. Stuart Attridge, trader at Harlow Agricultural Merchants, told Agritrade News that protein levels in harvested wheat is down. He...
Essex arable crop grower Guy Smith has been appointed as chairman of Red Tractor’s Combinable Crops and Sugar Beet Sector with effect from November this year. He succeeds Surrey farmer Laurence Matthews after a decade with the assurance body, including two terms as...
With new crop priced higher than old, there's an incentive to hold on to wheat if possible. However, the UK still has a big exportable surplus, despite a fast export pace in September as the trade got ready for what could have been a no-deal Brexit on October 31st....
The gyrations of the pound against the currencies of our major trading partners, against the background of parliamentary rows over Brexit, plus a fast import pace are slowing progress in the UK rapeseed market. New crop planting is moving along, despite an outlook...
The UK oilseed rape market is slowly working out the last of the old crop as it watches developments around the world - notably in the US where wet weather has slowed plantings dramatically. The domestic rapeseed area appears to be well down. “It’s very quiet,” John...