Boerenbusiness Poll
Wheat price expectations are positive
The expectation for the average wheat price per tonne for the 2018/2019 season is positive. This is evident from the Boerenbusiness poll. Of the 449 respondents, 37% say they expect a price between €211 and €250 per tonne.
From the Boerenbusiness Poll shows that 37% of the respondents expect a price between €211 and €250 per tonne. This group is closely followed by a group of 34% who expect the average price for the 2018/2019 season to be slightly lower, namely between €191 and €210 per tonne.
Of all 449 respondents, 12% expect a price between €180 and €190 per tonne. It is striking that the most negative and most positive scenarios appear to be the least realistic. Only 8% of the respondents expect a price below €180, where only 8% expect it to exceed €250 per ton.
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The poll shows that 37% expect a price between €211 and €250 per tonne.
Will the area change?
Wheat is often referred to as a pivotal function in the Dutch building plan† However, this has changed in the last 2 years, but that does not seem to affect the cultivation plan of the Dutch growers, because 62% of the respondents indicate that they do not change the wheat acreage in the cultivation plan for the 2019 harvest.
In addition, 23% of the 344 respondents indicate that they will sow more wheat. The other 15% of the respondents indicate that they will sow less wheat for the 2019 harvest.
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More than 60% of the respondents indicate that they keep the acreage the same.
Ration at livestock farmers
Due to drought and heat, there was a temporary possible shortage to roughage. Wheat and chunks of wheat were identified as an alternative to maize. Have livestock farmers based their rations on that? From the Boerenbusiness Poll shows that this is not the case, because 59% indicate that they include the same amount of wheat in the ration for cows and pigs.
In addition, 23% of the respondents indicate that they include more wheat in the ration and 18% of the 215 respondents indicate that less wheat is included in the ration for cows and pigs.
The majority keeps the share of wheat in the ration the same.
Kimberly Baker
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