Oilseed Rape Market Insight
Based on the 30-day trend in the published price series.
£457/t (2025 average) continues a two-year rise, a different pattern to the cereals above.
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What's moving the market?
Facts
UK oilseed rape prices rose to £457/t in 2025, from £407/t in 2024 and £398/t in 2023 (Defra) — already moving opposite to cereals before the drought. We have not found drought-impact reporting specific to oilseed rape yields for 2026; the coverage we reviewed focused on wheat, barley, oats and grassland, not oilseed rape.
Forecast
Oilseed rape prices are more closely tied to global vegetable oil markets and UK/EU crush demand than to the UK harvest alone, so even a UK yield hit would not automatically move OSR the way it might move wheat.
Facts and forecasts are shown separately. A forecast is never a certainty.
What to watch
- Current position
- £457/t (2025 average) continues a two-year rise, a different pattern to the cereals above.
- Key drivers
- Global vegetable oil prices, UK/EU planted area and yield, crush demand for biodiesel and food use, and competition from other oilseed crops globally.
- What industry sources are expecting
- We have not identified drought-specific OSR yield reporting to cite here; general oilseed sector commentary has linked 2025's rise to firmer global vegetable oil markets and constrained planted area.
- CardiganBayAI outlook
- Unlike wheat and barley, we do not have drought-specific evidence for oilseed rape, so we are not making a drought-linked call here — global vegetable oil markets remain the bigger factor to watch for this one.
This is CardiganBayAI's analysis, not financial or trading advice.
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Sources & methodology
- ADM Agriculture — Weekly Market Report — data as of 2026-08-20
CardiganBayAI analyses publicly available information from named sources above. We don't display information as current beyond what those sources have actually verified.