• Wheat still on the up and up

    JUST AS the daylight hours are lengthening so, too, does the list of commodity traders getting into wheat, once again pushing up prices.

  • Good 2011 yields should offset increased costs

    IN ALL, 50mm or two inches of rain has fallen this month to date and only five days with no recorded rainfall.

  • Will ethanol hold the key to the market?

    NOW THAT 2011 is underway, we can turn our thoughts to the future.

  • OSR goes through £400/tonne barrier

    SNOW, ICE and dangerous roads – where is it all going to end – and we haven’t even got to Christmas yet!

  • Prices heat up with the cold

    SNOW CONTINUES to wreak havoc with work, roads, problems feeding livestock and now there are concerns for frozen pipes as the Met office forecasts yet colder weather.

  • Chinese whispers leads to price see-saw

    IT’S BEEN a week of when matters over which farmers or even the weather have little or any control, have been adding a bit of panic into the grain trade.

  • Prices up as market tightens

    SO FAR this month, we have had 39mm or 1½ inches of rain in the Borders, but not as much as in the North and West of Scotland.

  • Grain prices begin to rise again

    AS FARMERS mop up – sometimes quite literally – the last of the tattie harvest, the feedback on their Blackberries and iPhones from their grain traders will have been giving them some added satisfaction.

  • UK exports – will they empty our grain stores?

    IT’S DIFFICULT to get away without writing about the weather again, as recent heavy rain has now seen 52mm or 2 inches so far in the Borders for October and, for the year to date, it is 592mm or just a little more than 23 inches – compared to 24½ inches last year at this time.

  • Wheat price not boiling ... but simmering

    IT’S BEEN brighter and cooler up above – allowing some parts of the North-east back in to harvest mode – but the market has been gently simmering following recent updates at home and abroad.