Grain price graph/data

[MattR]

Can't find what I'm looking for on google - I'm after a graph or spreadsheet showing spot wheat prices, say monthly over the last few years, to get an idea of the average increase from harvest to winter/spring grain prices. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks.

 

[Wiltshire Bob]

AHDB would be a good place to start, Loads of info on there, I think you can even put recorded historic delivered prices in a graph.

link below, might be of use,

https://ahdb.org.uk/cereals-oilseeds/uk-delivered-prices

But if you are after something simple, this is essentially the wheat price dld based on UK futures give or take a few £'ss over the last few years

Futures prices | AHDB

Futures markets allow grain to be traded on contracts with predetermined prices and delivery dates in the future. The price information is collected from a range of global marketplaces and shows the price trends for a selection of commodities tendered on futures markets. Each morning, Monday...

ahdb.org.uk

 

[AHDB Cereals and Oilseeds]

Can't find what I'm looking for on google - I'm after a graph or spreadsheet showing spot wheat prices, say monthly over the last few years, to get an idea of the average increase from harvest to winter/spring grain prices. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks.

Good morning,

All of our ex-farm price data is available here - https://ahdb.org.uk/cereals-oilseeds/ex-farm-prices-summary

About two thirds of the way down the page is a "downloads" section which has a link for monthly and yearly prices.

Let me know if you were after something different and I'd be happy to help.

Kind regards
James

 

[yellow belly]

The data on hgca goes back a couple of decades or used to in their archive

 

[Woldgrain Storage]

Is there a simple graph/chart that shows a September price and a June price for each year?

 

[AHDB Cereals and Oilseeds]

Is there a simple graph/chart that shows a September price and a June price for each year?

Have used May for 2020/21 to give an indication of the current season trend in the carry from Sep to Jun.

Kind regards
James

 

[MattR]

Thanks for the replies to this, sorry to not reply sooner. Seems there's quite a bit of data available (I had looked at the ADHB site before posting the thread but couldn't find exactly what I was after, thanks for pointing me in the right direction.)

The main reason I was asking about this was re my own situation - I can store most of my grain but generally have to move a few loads at harvest to make space. Looked into storage at a local store - which works out at getting on for £20/t including haulage etc, and didn't really have enough of my own data to work out the likely economics of it.

The harvest-winter-spring price variation is of considerable importance when it comes to business decisions, ie whether to build more storage/invest in central storage/when to sell etc, that I'm surprised that we don't see more graphs/data on that particular topic. I'm sure my dad used to quote what he reckoned was the average harvest-to-new year price difference but I can't remember what his figure was.

 

[Woldgrain Storage]

Looked into storage at a local store - which works out at getting on for £20/t including haulage etc,

That sounds mighty expensive?

I'm sure my dad used to quote what he reckoned was the average harvest-to-new year price difference but I can't remember what his figure was.

We generally work on £1 a month for cereals. Some years the carry is a bit less, sometimes a bit more.

 

[teslacoils]

The carry is the value of storing the grain for the extra month *on the day*. The spread of prices over the season is not the carry.

You build the shed based on:

The carry between selling at harvest Vs storing at the difference between the harvest and say may price *at the price you would have taken at harvest*.

Or

You build the shed to allow you to set a price later on. This is not an investment but a license to gamble.