Prices & Trends

Farmers may look back on the 2019/20 grain season as one of the most buffeted by external events they can remember.

Global dairy prices are increasing, but that has yet to filter through to higher UK farmgate prices.

What to watch: 2020 wheat production estimates remain difficult to predict, but it is clear we will need to import a huge tonnage. The spread between UK and Continental prices will remain the key metric to monitor.

Continued pressure on margins should prompt serious business planning, consultants Andersons advised visitors to Dairy-Tech

Coronavirus is starting to have an effect on global agricultural commodities, largely because of a drop in oil prices.

Store cattle prices are strengthening, with numbers sold through auction markets lower than a year ago.

Input costs have been relatively stable over the last year and that trend could continue with downward pressure on oil prices.

While tractor registrations in 2019 were up 1.9 per cent, the average tractor horsepower dropped by just over one per cent.