Values retreat from recent highs

It has been another quiet week for the grain markets over the last seven days. End-user demand for pre-Christmas delivery has thinned, farm-seller interest has been pretty scarce and trade volumes have thus been rather slow. London feed wheat futures have continued to drift for the third week running and although new crop ex-farm prices have kept relatively firm, we are just beginning to see old...
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SPRING LINSEED – seed price list for Harvest 2013

BRIGHTON High yielding, late maturing variety with average oil content. Chinook treated, £49 per 25kg (1 acre) pack (delivered farm).       ABACUS High yielding, early maturing variety with high oil content. Chinook treated, £35 per 18kg (1 acre) pack (delivered farm).     BILTON Average yielding, average maturity with good oil content.                         Chinook...
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SPRING OSR – seed price list for Harvest 2013

ABILITY Popular conventional variety with average yield and good oil content. Cruiser treated, £206.25 per 25kg pack (delivered farm).     TAMARIN The second highest recommended variety on the HGCA recommendation list. Conventional variety with good yield and high oil content. Cruiser treated, £218.75 per 25kg pack (delivered farm).     MAKRO The top recommended variety on the HGCA...
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“40% increase in spring barley for Harvest 2013” – HGCA

It has been another seven days of pretty impressive price gains this week and although ex-farm prices aren’t quite were they were towards the end of last week they have firmly kept their ‘record breaking’ levels. By this time last week (Thursday 29th November), the London wheat future for May 2013 had topped £230/T – the highest value for a tradable future ever recorded. At the time,...
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