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Hampton

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BASIS
Location
Shropshire
For the first time in many a long year ive learnt something from the ahdb today in their daily missives that ive been struggling to find the answer to ,so here is my question
How much does it cost to transport a ton of grain from a loaded boat in the black sea i.e fob free on board to a destination wether store or end user close by to a uk destination ? im thinking a similar cost would be the case from north america possibly a tad more so without looking to make my question fair how much do you think?
Was told I while back that it basically cost the same to transport a tonne of rape by boat from Oz to Liverpool as it did to unload it off the boat and drive it to the crush.
Black Sea would prob be similar? £18
 

4course

Member
Location
north yorks
Was told I while back that it basically cost the same to transport a tonne of rape by boat from Oz to Liverpool as it did to unload it off the boat and drive it to the crush.
Black Sea would prob be similar? £18
according to the ahdb ,the info is on their site it costs £47.30 which as I and a lot more than most if not all have been led to believe. Which pretty much means uk produced grain is undervalued, so begs the next question where in the world is there or will be next year any quantity of wheat of a similar to uk standard available at a cost ex farm or fob to import at so called parity
 
according to the ahdb ,the info is on their site it costs £47.30 which as I and a lot more than most if not all have been led to believe. Which pretty much means uk produced grain is undervalued, so begs the next question where in the world is there or will be next year any quantity of wheat of a similar to uk standard available at a cost ex farm or fob to import at so called parity
Unfortunately for us the "similar to UK standard" becomes irrelevant when they want to hold our price steady.
 

PSQ

Member
Arable Farmer
Quaker/OatCo is wheat futures based
The forward contract certainly is, but their free market policy will be to buy as cheap as possible.

My oats looked so crap last May / June that I didn’t want to be bound to the terms of a contract with a failed crop. Then the crop mysteriously yielded 3t/acre, leaving me both delighted and kicking myself at the same time. C’est la vie 🤦‍♂️
 

Brisel

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Midlands
The forward contract certainly is, but their free market policy will be to buy as cheap as possible.

My oats looked so crap last May / June that I didn’t want to be bound to the terms of a contract with a failed crop. Then the crop mysteriously yielded 3t/acre, leaving me both delighted and kicking myself at the same time. C’est la vie 🤦‍♂️

How much free market do they buy? They've asked their OatCo growers to cut back by 15% this year. After we'd drilled the winters.
 

PSQ

Member
Arable Farmer
How much free market do they buy? They've asked their OatCo growers to cut back by 15% this year. After we'd drilled the winters.
I’m told that the mills usually start looking on the open market in or around March, to supplement the volume bought on contract.
But there was a lot of extra acreage in the ground last year and they’ll know that it’s an easy year to justify low ball prices.
 
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An Gof

Member
Location
Cornwall
I don't get it, quoted £196 today with a pound a month after that. Mills on our doorstep going for barley instead apparently. Who knows where from, none about I thought!

Market report I received yesterday put indicative FW values at £202-204 April for here. Report also said they were actively looking for FB.
 

super4

Member
Location
Dorset
wheat 205 for May here, can't get earlier uplift as feed homes been rolling thousands of tons forwards apparantly.
Sold some barley yesterday £162 uplift next week.
 

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