Advice on growing malting barley to gain from high premiums

Premiums of £55-£60/t for malting barley are being offered this harvest, with the price supported by beer’s history of being recession-proof and the post-Covid recovery in beer sales. For these reasons, and given likely inflationary effects on crop inputs, growers should not be in too much of a rush to drill wall-to-wall winter wheat this autumn, says Tom Eaton, trading
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