Crop growing weather in the UK has improved recently, but fears for the domestic bioethanol market and likely competition from EU - notably French - supplies are holding the market back. “We got some rain at long last,” Stuart...
The domestic grain market is increasingly focussed on the development of new crop wheat, as UK traders struggle to find buyers for milling quality samples - particularly in the face of continued high imports. There was “a little bit...
Traders are reporting zero activity in the UK milling wheat market at the moment, as imports satisfy buyers’ short-term needs. “The market's just ridiculous at the moment,” Stuart Attridge, trader at Harlow Agricultural Merchants...
UK wheat buyers are holding back from buying domestic quality wheat, as milling supplies flood in at a record level. “Selling anything with any quality - milling wheats or malting barleys - is almost impossible,” Stuart Attridge,...
A strong pound has added an extra bearish element to a slow-moving UK wheat market as the year moves to a close. German wheat has been coming into the UK, while domestic supplies remain uncompetitive on export markets. “Growers have...
The latest developments in Ukraine’s defence against Russian aggression have added to geopolitical uncertainty this week and brought politics back to the forefront of thinking in the wheat market. The business looks set to stay...