Archived snapshot. This is the UK farmer sentiment pulse as recorded for ISO week 2026-W28. The live version is updated daily. Older snapshots: archive index.

Sentiment Pulse

This week's UK farmer mood from the curated UK arable practitioner corpus. Updated daily at ~07:25 UTC. Last refresh: 2026-07-06.

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. 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).

30-day trend

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

Recent farmer voices

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

W. · UK · 2026-06-25 positive

All turning here fast too, best and thickest fields turning quickest. Little concerning, but the crop growth stages have been nearly two weeks early for us all through the season. Anyone know the last time we had such a hot end to June?

W. · Yorkshire & The Humber · 2026-07-02 negative

I think if you had asked me to book the worst possible weather since the 12th of June knowing we were a bit short of rainfall I don’t think you could have come up with this . Zero meaning full rain, a heat wave and gale force winds it’s shocking

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 ›

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.

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