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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Dry weather has seen rapid progress with the winter barley harvest, with more than 69% already complete in England, Wales and Scotland. This is according to the first AHDB Harvest Progress Report based on data collated by Adas, which points out that the next earliest winter barley harvest was back in 2006. See also: Harvest 2022: The 5 top-yielding winter barley
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The brewing giant, which also has its UK corporate headquarters in Edinburgh, said that 660 pubs – more than a quarter of its Star Pubs & Bars venue business – will be upgraded as part of the move. The move comes as the UK hospitality industry targets a strong period of recovery in 2022 after some two years hampered by pandemic restrictions and
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