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Agricultural intelligence

Reference weather, policy, resilience, flood, and commodity context from cached public feeds and official sources, shaped for quick agricultural review.

Sources Weather, GOV.UK, EA, and market context

Purpose Operational context, not statutory alerting

Delivery Cached feeds refreshed in the background

Information only — not a statutory alerting service

This area shows cached third-party feeds and Mallport summaries for agricultural context. It is not a replacement for Met Office or Environment Agency statutory products, Floodline, 999, or other official emergency channels. Watch-zone and push alerts are heuristic and may miss warnings or notify when official products disagree — always confirm on the provider’s site.

Reference weather (UK)

Clear

Temperature: 10.3°C

Humidity: 69%

Wind: 13.2 mph (270°)

Observation time: 2026-04-03T20:45

Snapshot stored: 3 Apr 2026, 7:50 p.m.

Weather data by Open-Meteo (no API key; attribution required).

DEFRA headlines (GOV.UK)

News and communications from Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) Snapshot: 3 Apr 2026, 7:50 p.m.

Largest ever Government investment in threatened species recovery 2026-04-03T09:00:01+01:00 A total £90 million funding for species recovery across England
Avian Influenza housing measures lifted 2026-04-02T13:01:47+01:00 Mandatory housing measures for poultry and captive birds will be lifted in England and Wales from Thursday 9 April.
Bird flu (avian influenza): latest situation in England 2026-04-02T12:00:03+01:00 Find out about the latest bird flu situation in England and guidance for bird keepers and the public.
UK opens door to Japan's £1.4 billion organic market 2026-04-01T15:59:05+01:00 Strengthened UK-Japan trade arrangement slashes red tape for British organic exporters, cutting costs and bureaucracy

Appointments to the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board 2026-04-01T12:08:45+01:00 Two new board members have been appointed to the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board
Appointments to the Consumer Council for Water Board 2026-04-01T10:00:01+01:00 The new board members will serve three-year terms
Simpler household recycling rules come into force across England 2026-03-31T00:01:00+01:00 Simpler Recycling to end years of confusion and deliver consistent collections
Inspections target smashed with 10,000 health checks on water network 2026-03-30T22:30:02+01:00 Environment Agency completes record number of water company inspections driving improved performance across the sector

Open Atom feed on GOV.UK

Headlines are automated from GOV.UK; always verify on the official site.

Official sources

Quick links alongside the feeds above.

Drought, water & resilience (GOV.UK)

Second Atom feed for drought / water / environment keywords — advisory context only, not a warning service. Snapshot: 3 Apr 2026, 7:50 p.m.

Largest ever Government investment in threatened species recovery 2026-04-03T09:00:01+01:00
Avian Influenza housing measures lifted 2026-04-02T13:01:47+01:00
Bird flu (avian influenza): latest situation in England 2026-04-02T12:00:03+01:00
Appointments to the Consumer Council for Water Board 2026-04-01T10:00:01+01:00

Inspections target smashed with 10,000 health checks on water network 2026-03-30T22:30:02+01:00
Largest ever enforcement workforce protecting waterways from pollution 2026-03-30T17:06:15+01:00
Fewer and shorter storm overflow spills in 2025, new monitoring data shows 2026-03-26T09:30:24+00:00
“Wainwright way” becomes England’s newest National Trail 2026-03-26T00:01:02+00:00

Open this Atom feed on GOV.UK

Markets & commodity context

Signposts to AHDB and official statistics — not trading advice; verify licensing for your use.

AHDB markets and prices

Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board — UK market commentary and datasets.

AHDB cereals & oilseeds

Sector outlooks and price dashboards (verify licensing for your use).

AHDB dairy

Dairy market indicators and analysis.

Rural economy statistics (GOV.UK)

Official agriculture and rural economy statistics portal.

Flood warnings snapshot (EA)

Live list from the Environment Agency flood-monitoring API — advisory only. Always verify on Check for flooding. Snapshot: 3 Apr 2026, 7:50 p.m.

Items in feed: 14

Groundwater flooding in the West of Dorset Flood alert
Groundwater flooding in the Salisbury Plain area Flood alert
Groundwater flooding for the Till Warning no longer in force
Groundwater flooding in the Bourne Valley - The Winterbournes Warning no longer in force
Groundwater flooding in Hursley Flood alert

Groundwater flooding in Twyford and Hensting Flood alert
Tidal Camel Estuary at Rock and low lying properties on the Little Petherick Creek Warning no longer in force
River Lambourn and its tributaries from Upper Lambourn down to Newbury Flood alert
Groundwater flooding in the Lambourn Valley catchment Flood alert
Groundwater flooding in the Alton area Flood alert
Groundwater flooding in villages surrounding Andover Flood alert
Groundwater flooding in East Kent Flood alert
Groundwater flooding in the Great Shefford area Flood alert
Groundwater flooding in West Ilsley, East Ilsley, Compton, Chilton and West Hagbourne Flood alert

Rainfall & drought-style context

3-month rolling precipitation vs recent history at the site reference grid (Open-Meteo archive). This is not statutory SPI or an official drought status.

Recent 3-month rainfall is near the recent baseline for this reference grid.

Last window: 2026-03
3-month sum (mm): 234.9
Z-style index: 0.528
Empirical percentile (3-month total): 60.0%

Empirical percentile of the latest 3-month total vs prior rolling totals in this window — not SPEI/SPI from a parametric distribution.

Map: OpenStreetMap contributors · precip: Open-Meteo.

Warning context map

UK reference point, your saved watch zones (if any), optional “use my location” for this browser only (not stored until you add a zone on My intelligence snapshot), and — when NSWWS is enabled — Met Office issued warning areas from the cached GeoJSON feed (advisory overlay; verify on the Met Office site).

Met Office severe weather warnings (public RSS)

Official Met Office syndicated feed for the UK region (or custom URL in site settings). Met Office warnings for UK Snapshot: 3 Apr 2026, 7:50 p.m.

Official Met Office RSS; users must be able to open the full warning on the Met Office site. Confirm syndication terms with counsel before production use.

Met Office — always confirm the live warning on their site.

Severe weather / warnings (operator feed)

Licensed or internal mirror only — not a Met Office product. Snapshot: 3 Apr 2026, 7:50 p.m.

No warnings cached or feed not configured.

Soil moisture (reference grid)

Open-Meteo forecast layer (0–7 cm). Not a regulatory soil moisture product.

Commodity price trends

Cached series from your operator JSON feed. commodities.json for redistribution (rate-limited).

Developers: machine-readable summaries using the same cached intelligence layer: widgets.json · commodities.json · spec.json