Wheat: Introduction

Robin Appel Ltd are main suppliers to all the leading flour mills across the UK. We command a wide spectrum of supply contracts which enables us to offer growers fixed prices or risk managed price structures up to 24 months ahead of harvest. We are firmly committed to supporting any new initiative which engages milling wheat growers in the improvement of the UK bread market.

“World grain stocks are still finely balanced between supply and demand, albeit with a boost to carry over stocks from 2009 global harvest. Weather, bio-fuel demand, emerging economies and speculator interference all poised to create serious price swings. At the same time volatile energy costs present a new challenge to cropping plans both from the perspective of production costs and customer demand. These are markets which require risk assessment and risk management, and ‘local’ and ‘premium’ should feature strongly, when cropping choices are being made.”

Christopher Spedding