Archived snapshot. This is the UK farmer sentiment pulse as recorded for ISO week 2026-W18. The live version is updated daily. Older snapshots: archive index.

Weekly summary — week 18, 2026

Sentiment Pulse

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

What this page shows

An aggregated public view of CropIntel's UK farmer sentiment signal: direction only, no specific scores, no regional breakdown. The full detail (per-region scores, individual post rationales, sentiment overlay multiplier on today's headline call) lives on today’s call.

Today's sentiment direction

MILDLY NEGATIVE

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

Active early-warning signal

pest pressure rising — across the last 7 days of UK arable forum activity. The full regional breakdown and historical baseline comparison is on the sentiment pulse.

30-day trend

Daily rolling national sentiment score. Above the dashed zero line = positive; below = negative. Specific values are available on the live dashboard.

Recent farmer voices

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

N. · — · 2026-05-03 positive

Mine has finished flowering and looks like the best crop we have grown for a while. Some grass due to no kerb this year but its mostly clean. Input spend to date is 180 euros a hectare. Gate has been shut since the end of February.

E. · North East · 2026-04-21 negative

Inys. Like you, I'm not 100% convinced of BYDV. This looks more like it. Headlands are much greener, again contrary to normal wisdom.

How this is built

CropIntel ingests posts daily from active arable forums on The Farming Forum. 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.

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