The quality of UK wheat this year, most of which has been collected in southern growing areas, appears to be similar to 2005, farmers' co-operative Grainfarmers said on Tuesday.
"Despite weekend rain halting proceedings in most areas across all of the UK, the general view is that quality should not be badly affected unless protracted bad weather sets in," Grainfarmers said in a statement.
"While 60-70 percent of the total southern wheat acreage was in the barn by Monday (August 14), and some had finished combining, Grainfarmers' farm business managers in Lincolnshire, Yorkshire and further north are reporting that growers in their regions were no more than at best, half way through their crops."
David Doyle, Grainfarmers' head of wheat desk, said that while wheats are ripe, as long as it remains relatively cold, quality should hold up. Reflecting the lull in combining at the start of the week, trade is also slack, Grainfarmers said. Prices are fairly stable with ex farm wheats at 75-77 pounds per tonne for November movement.
Grainfarmers' head of milling wheat, Simon Ingle, estimated that around three-quarters of the UK's milling wheat area is now in the barn. In general, proteins and Hagbergs are good, he said. Ingle's main concern is the condition of the predominantly soft wheat area still to be cut.
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