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Should we be concerned about falling global grain stocks?
March 1st 2025
Openfield experts explore the global grain deficit, and planning ahead for your summer-sown cover crop. US Department of Agriculture numbers show a 37 million tonne deficit in combined world wheat, barley, maize and rice, resulting in global stocks dropping to levels last seen in 2015/16. As the world will still have 747 million tonnes of […]
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Openfield maintains 2024 profitability and further improves service
February 4th 2025
Openfield Group Limited has reported its results to 30 June 2024. Against a backdrop of poor planting conditions in Autumn 2023 and a large carry forward of crops into 2024, the British farmer-owned grain marketing and arable inputs co-operative has reported a profit of £0.8m for the year to 30 June 2024 (2023: Profit £2.3m). […]
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What makes a farming business futureproof in the current environment?
February 1st 2025
Openfield experts explore the shortfall in global wheat, barley and corn stocks; and fertiliser pricing volatility. It’s a good question and hopefully one that you have all asked yourselves, but I also wonder how many of your family asked themselves the same question over the years, writes Cecilia Pryce, Openfield head of research, compliance & […]
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We are reliant on maize and wheat imports – but many forget this
January 2nd 2025
As the equilibrium shifts and we start to need more imports, there’s an urgent need for attention to detail and greater understanding of the industry. If I told you that the UK has been a net importer of grains in every year except one in the last 12 years, would you believe me? So asks […]
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Does the UK have a plan for farming?
December 1st 2024
With few policy makers having spent time at the coal face of farming, what is the future of UK agriculture? Does the UK, or should that be the devolved nations of the UK have current agricultural policies? As a student in the late 1980s we spent many hours debating EU agricultural policy and watching as […]
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What happens if weather extremes are the new normal?
November 1st 2024
Another year and another set of weather records broken, but what will the lasting effects be? Extremes of weather seem to be the new norm, and unfortunately something we are all having to learn to live with – but what is the long-term impact on farmed area? We recently saw the data published for the […]
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