# Grain price pressure continues as tonnes swell -  Premium

> Grain prices in Europe and the UK fell over the past week, driven by northern hemisphere harvest pressure and higher forecasts of Russian export availability. Early Ukrainian maize yields point to a large harvest. UK ex-farm feed barley and feed wheat prices dropped, and rapeseed prices were under pressure.

- Date: 2017-08-23 · published 2017-08-23T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: market · region Europe · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/11618-grain-price-pressure-continues-as-tonnes-swell-premium
- Commodities: [Wheat (SRW)](https://feedsoft.ai/c/WHEAT.md), [Barley](https://feedsoft.ai/c/BARLEY.md)

## Why it matters

Large Russian and Ukrainian export supplies pressure European feed grain prices, giving feed buyers cheaper options. Feed wheat trading below bread wheat also widens the milling premium.

## Read by commodity

- WHEAT: bearish ▼
- BARLEY: bearish ▼

## Sources

- farmersjournal.ie: https://www.farmersjournal.ie/tillage/markets/price-pressure-continues-as-tonnes-swell-302955

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