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The Bank of England raised its base rate to 4%, its first increase in more than three years, and sterling strengthened against the euro. The article cites GBP/EUR at 1.200944, GBP/USD at 1.346816 and EUR/USD at 1.121465, with UK services PMI revised down to 52.8 and eurozone inflation rising to 4%.
Currency moves between sterling, the euro and the dollar change the relative cost of imported feed ingredients for UK and European buyers. The impact on commodity prices is limited.
Not enough comparable past events yet for a historical read.
Moves of each commodity's benchmark from the last close before the event. Historical reads pool past events of the same kind; they describe what happened, not what will. Not investment advice.