Archived snapshot. This is the UK farmer sentiment pulse as recorded for ISO week 2026-W20. The live version is updated daily. Older snapshots: archive index.

Weekly summary — week 20, 2026

Sentiment Pulse

This week's UK farmer mood from the curated UK arable practitioner corpus. Updated daily at ~07:25 UTC. Last refresh: 2026-05-17.

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.

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.

A. · Eastern · 2026-05-13 mildly positive

I am looking at swapping a heva stealth and a big tim howard for a 6m grange CCT, then putting our maestro maize/beet drill on it for proper precision osr drilling of hybrids. Can then also explore strip till maize and beet

F. · — · 2026-05-12 negative

Hard frost this morning, scraping windows on the motor!. Supposed to have had rain yesterday but never came. I hope my potatoes are ok!

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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