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# Sentiment Pulse

This week's UK farmer mood from the curated UK arable practitioner
corpus. Updated daily at ~07:25 UTC. Last refresh: 2026-05-26.

What this page shows

The national 7-day UK farmer sentiment direction and score, plus any
active keyword spike. The per-region breakdown and how sentiment feeds
the confidence overlay are on [today's call](/today). The one
thing not shown anywhere public is *how* posts are scored, that's
the methodology, and it stays private.

## Today's sentiment direction

MILDLY NEGATIVE (-0.11)

Across the curated UK arable forum corpus, the rolling 7-day
sentiment is **mildly negative (-0.11)**.

## Active early-warning signal

**disease pressure running 2.5× above its recent baseline (national)**, across the last 7 days of UK arable forum
activity. The full regional breakdown and historical baseline comparison is
on [today's call](/today).

## 30-day trend

Daily rolling national sentiment score. Above the dashed zero line =
positive; below = negative. Specific values are available on the
[sentiment pulse](/sentiment-pulse).

## Recent farmer voices

Real posts from the last 7 days, anonymised to initials.

**W.** · Yorkshire & The Humber · 2026-05-15

positive

Might get some over the weekend and monday then its warming up. Mid 20's forecast for the bank holiday weekend

**W.** · UK · 2026-05-21

negative

At a guess 6t/ha max- pic may be deceiving. Given the good establishment it had all the promise of a solid 10t early on, but has got progressively worse.

## Weekly archive

Every week's pulse is frozen and kept as a dated snapshot, building a
public, timestamped record of UK arable sentiment over the season.
[Browse the weekly archive ›](/sentiment-pulse/)

## How this is built

CropIntel ingests posts daily from active arable forums on
[The Farming Forum](https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/). Each post
is scored twice, once by a hand-curated UK-agri lexicon (deterministic),
once by a frontier LLM with a one-line rationale, and the two scores
are blended with weight toward the LLM. Out-of-season posts (no
agronomic signal) are
excluded rather than averaged in. The page above is rebuilt every
morning from the latest daily aggregate. Full
[methodology](/methodology).

The system that produces this pulse (the curated corpus, the model, and the
public track record) is available to acquire.
[See the opportunity](/the-opportunity).