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UK cropping intentions move back to wheat: Grain Market Daily

01 декабря 2020 года

Market commentary

• May-21 UK wheat futures closed unchanged from Wednesday, at £193.00/t. While the Nov-21 contract gained £0.35/t, closing at £159.95/t.
• IKAR consultancy sees Russia’s 2021 grain crop at 125Mt. The Russian wheat harvest in 2021 may decline to 78Mt, from 84Mt this year. Russian weather will be a focus throughout this marketing year.
• 96% of French soft wheat crop is rated good or excellent (at 23 November) according to FranceAgriMer.
• The Early Bird Survey (EBS) has been released today, providing the industry with the first look into UK cropping intentions for 2021 harvest.

UK cropping intentions move back to wheat

The Early Bird Survey (EBS) has been released today, providing the industry with the first look into UK cropping intentions for 2021 harvest.

Better weather than last year during this year’s drilling campaign, resulted in the land becoming more accessible for many. This has led to intentions shifting back to conventional winter cropping.

Oilseed rape (OSR) continues to see an area decline, with growers intending to plant the lowest area since 1986. Successive challenging years with pest damage and poor weather, could well be driving this change. In addition, the EBS shows an increase in other break crops.

Key highlights of the provisional Early Bird Survey results include:

• Wheat area is estimated to increase by 28.3%, with intended cropping area at 1,815Kha.
• Winter barley is estimated to increase by 24%, with intended cropping area at 394Kha.
• OSR area estimated at 318Kha, a decrease of 18.1% year-on-year to the lowest area so far this century.
• Oats continue to grow in area, estimated to increase by 3.6%, with the area intended at 219Kha.
• Arable fallow is down 29.9%, with more favourable weather this autumn.

The total wheat area intended to be planted this year is in line with the 5-year average (exc. 2019/20) of 1,802Kha (2015-19). The start of autumn was significantly better than last year which has allowed winter plantings to progress better. With better weather forecast over the coming week, it is anticipated that planting will be able to continue.

Improved drilling conditions have resulted in winter barley area intentions increasing by 24%, to 394Kha. A significant proportion of winter barley will have been sown already. Despite this increase, winter barley intentions are down on the 5-year average of 429Kha (exc. 2019/20).

The uptick in winter intentions has led to a decline in spring planting intentions on the year. Last season saw a heavy reliance on spring drilling, given the challenges of the weather during the autumn window.

Better conditions this year have seen that behaviour largely reversed. The intended spring barley area has reduced to 767Kha. Excluding 2019/20 spring barley area is still above the 5-year average of 711Kha, as growers increase their reliance on spring cropping. The area of both winter and spring barley remains over 1,100Kha.

Back in September, Helen and James gave some insight into what planted areas could look this season. Helen stated that should more “normal” conditions prevail, we’d see the UK wheat area to recover for harvest 2021. Further to that, James showed that wheat was top of the gross margins.

The more detailed regional breakdown of the EBS will be released following the publication of final crop areas by Defra in December.

https://ahdb.org.uk/

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