Dewing Grain Podcast

In this week’s Bitesize, Andrew is joined by Webby to debrief on a pretty eventful couple of days. They run through the latest on the peace negotiations before turning to what farmers are likely to be drilling this season. Malting barley comes under the microscope — with profitability increasingly hard to justify, it’s becoming a tougher decision to grow. Andrew closes with a note of caution: there could be more pain to come on grain prices in the short term.

This week Andrew is joined by Ben and Webby, and things kick off in typical fashion with Ben and Webby taking jabs at each other. Ben also reports that his bike recently had a run-in with a pheasant — the pheasant started it. He then brings up the French freezer cyber-attack before Andrew takes the wheel with some good news — Dewing Grain’s Oct-Dec Pool will be over £200 per tonne. Andrew closes out with his thoughts on the unfair playing field UK farmers continue to face.

This week Joe and Webby take charge while Andrew is out on the road. They cover the upcoming tender, look ahead to the USDA report due out Friday, and touch on the Australian crop. They close out with the most important news of the week — Ben has set a new personal best on his cycle route around Aylsham. The bar has been raised.

This week Andrew is joined by Ben and Webby, and SFI is back on the agenda. The numbers speak for themselves — 40,000 applicants, 12,500 managed to get in. The team then turn their attention to war and what it means for markets. Webby makes the case that the market is currently undervalued, and Andrew closes with his concerns about new crop spring barley tonnages.

This week Andrew is joined by Ben to dig into SFI. Andrew kicks off the market report with talk of Biscuit-gate.They start with the frustrations around getting into the scheme in the first place, before making the case that UK farmers are already doing plenty to look after the land — with or without a government scheme to tell them so. The pair then venture into slightly existential territory, discussing grain merchants as an endangered species, before closing out on the fundamental unfairness of the SFI system.

In this week's Bitesize, Andrew opens with the two main factors driving prices right now. He makes the case that the UK is shorter of wheat than most people realise, and touches on the current state of Russian-Ukrainian grain flows. Andrew also flags a limited supply of low nitrogen spring barley as one to watch, before closing with a word of caution — Russian and Ukrainian wheat will find its way to market eventually, so don't expect elevated prices to last forever.

This week Andrew is joined by Joe, Ben and Webby. Ben opens with a debrief from his recent visit to the House of Commons with the AIC. Webby then proceeds to show his age with some thoughts on phones. The team get into imports, Donald Trump's latest bribe, and Ben covers the recent Houthi activity. In breaking news, Ben has announced he will be braving the shave within the next six months — you heard it here first.Apologies for Joe's microphone being a little temperamental this week — new cables are on the way.

In this week's Bitesize, Andrew opens by acknowledging the recent lack of guests — normal service will resume soon. He moves on to the big news of the moment: Putin wants peace? Andrew shares his belief that once autumn drilling is out of the way, farmers will start to move more grain. He covers the feed barley market holding up well, touches on the cheap wheat stuck in Russia, and rounds things off with a look at the potential challenges farmers could face this season.

This week Andrew is joined by Joe, Ben and Webby. They open with a look at the changing sources of world wheat, before Ben gets into President Xi's visit to the US. Andrew weighs in on Trump's latest antics — never a dull moment — before closing things out with some thoughts on the importance of the malting industry and why it deserves more attention than it gets.