2018 Crop UK Export Quality

2018 Crop UK Export Quality

2018 Crop UK Export Quality

Harvest Overview

The UK experienced sensational weather for the harvest period of 2018. The hottest and driest June in 32 years saw crops harvested 3 weeks early on average. With only a single day of rain in July, harvest in the South was completed by 21 st August. Taking advantage of the dry conditions, farmers harvested 91% of their crops below 15% moisture with a remarkably low average moisture of 13%. As a result, grain quality has been very high, and disease and toxin levels have been negligible. Most crops yielded slightly below average due to the wet spring, consequent late drilling, and the absence of rain pre- harvest. This will inevitably have an impact on export availability as domestic demand is prioritised. However, this year there are milling wheat cargos available in standard UKP and UKS grades as well as premium quality Group 1 grade. Additionally, there will be a substantial barley export programme.

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Crop Export Quality Overview

Barley

Wheat

Specific weight Protein

No. Samples

Commodity

Oil

Moisture

Nitrogen

Germ

Broken Retention Screenings

Hagberg P/L

W

Don

%

Kg/HL

%

%

%

%

%

% Seconds

All Malting

1674

13.45

66.64

1.84

99.2

0.92

92.14

1.78

Propino

998

13.34

66.52

1.82

98.9

1.05

92.49

1.54

Planet

596

13.59

66.87

1.79

99.6

0.71

91.74

2.13

Barley

Laureate

48

13.93

64.35

1.82

98.6

0.85

90.47

2.66

Irina

47

13.68

68.38

1.83

98.6

0.89

92.23

1.21

Feed

90

12.81

66.17

1.87

All Wheat

2987

12.93

78.89

12.54

337

166

Gp1

1684

12.84

79.61

13.81

351

50

Wheat

UKP

1060

12.86

79.30

12.19

350

0.70 262

100

UKS

428

12.97

77.85

11.51

292

0.20 100

200

Gp4

383

13.19

78.26

11.45

319

350

All Milling

330

12.52

50.58

11.63

6.19

Mascani

205

12.31

52.91

11.33

4.91

Oats

Elyann

37

12.59

46.35

11.97

9.02

Canyon

46

12.84

46.13

12.20

9.27

Aspen

22

13.34

46.30

12.24

5.55

Beans

Human

50

14.65

76.33

Feed

48

14.96

77.04

Peas

Human

6

12.78

81.40

Feed

8

14.50

79.49

Oilseed Oil

48

7.19

43.8

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Milling Wheat

The 2018 harvest experienced an exceptionally high wheat crop quality with 56% of all samples exceeding 80 Kg/HL and most of the samples between 78 – 82 Kg/HL. Due to higher specific weight, protein content in UKP and UKS milling wheat grades has been slightly lower than last year. Given the sunny growing conditions, quality of the protein has been very high, bringing the grades closer to buyer specification. Falling number (Hagberg) results have proved outstanding with over half of the samples reaching 350 seconds and many exceeding 400. Pass rates for milling wheat during Harvest 2018 has been one of the highest on record. Cargos will be available in standard UKP and UKS as well as premium quality Group 1 categories.

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Malting Barley Quality

The 2018 malting barley harvest was not without its challenges. The 2018 growing season was very short and although the grain was very low in moisture, yields were below average resulting from the superb summer weather and bright sunshine. Despite the difficult conditions, the barley crop developed well with high marketable quality. Retention was high, and grains were cleaner and brighter than in some years with excellent germinative qualities.

Malting barley 1 kg samples are taken per 100 MT and the laboratory testing methodology is as follows: 1. Moisture, specific weight, Nitrogen parameters 2. Retention over a 2.5 mm sieve 3. Screenings through a 2.2 mm sieve

4. Broken grain count 5. Germination testing

93

92

91

90

89

88

87

Propino (998)

Planet (596)

Laureate (48)

Irina (47)

Average retention % by variety

Considering all quality factors, Planet was the outstanding variety overall, competing strongly with Propino which is also readily available.

100% 98% 96%