Agricultural intelligence
Reference weather, policy, resilience, flood, and commodity context from cached public feeds and official sources, shaped for quick agricultural review.
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)
Overcast
Temperature: 17.4°C
Humidity: 53%
Wind: 11.9 mph (256°)
Observation time: 2026-10-01T13:30
Snapshot stored: 1 Oct 2026, 12:44 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: 1 Oct 2026, 12:44 p.m.
- Animal Sentience Committee Chair reappointed 2026-10-01T10:35:50+01:00 Michael Seals reappointed for a second term
- No hiding place: new tracking system exposes waste criminals like never before 2026-10-01T00:01:09+01:00 First step in tracking waste and placing waste criminals under unprecedented scrutiny as new tracking system goes live
- Government acts on food insecurity and affordability with £10 million to put good food within reach 2026-09-30T10:21:00+01:00 Almost £10 million will be invested in 45 communities across England to improve access to healthy, affordable food in areas with the highest levels of deprivation
- UK driving action on climate and nature at UN General Assembly 2026-09-30T10:18:11+01:00 The UK government has put tacking the climate and nature crisis front and centre of discussions at last week's annual gathering of the UN General Assembly.
- Local communities to receive £79 million to restore nature 2026-09-30T10:17:07+01:00 Environment Secretary announces local communities to receive £79 million to restore nature and adapt to climate change
- Pathway to stronger public control of the water industry revealed 2026-09-29T16:00:03+01:00 Water Bill to remove caps on government share ownership in water firms
- New research ship to be built in Britain, boosting British shipbuilding and transforming UK ocean science 2026-09-28T12:38:59+01:00 Government to invest in a new sea monitoring ship to be built in UK shipyards – creating British jobs.
- Animal use in veterinary vaccines quality control falls to lowest levels in a decade 2026-09-24T00:01:00+01:00 Average number of animals needed to release a single used to release a batch of veterinary vaccine has fallen fell by 41% from 29 in 2013 to 17 in 2024
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: 1 Oct 2026, 12:44 p.m.
- Local communities to receive £79 million to restore nature 2026-09-30T10:17:07+01:00
- Pathway to stronger public control of the water industry revealed 2026-09-29T16:00:03+01:00
- New research ship to be built in Britain, boosting British shipbuilding and transforming UK ocean science 2026-09-28T12:38:59+01:00
- £233 million fund to help more farmers boost food production and protect the land 2026-09-22T11:19:17+01:00
- Government unveils plans to unlock over 15,000 new homes 2026-09-17T10:00:59+01:00
- Government, Environment Agency, and water companies step up efforts to prevent England remaining in drought by next spring 2026-09-16T10:56:41+01:00
- Environment Secretary Speech on Back British Farming Day 2026-09-09T13:21:37+01:00
- Environment Secretary visits Havant Thicket reservoir as government strengthens water resilience amid ongoing drought 2026-09-04T09:00:00+01:00
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: 1 Oct 2026, 12:44 p.m.
Items in feed: 2
- South Cornwall coast from Lizard Point to Gribbin Head excluding the Tidal Fal Estuary Warning no longer in force
- South Cornwall coast from Gribbin Head to Rame Head Warning no longer in force
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 notably below the recent baseline for this grid — monitor official drought and water resources guidance.
- Last window: 2026-09
- 3-month sum (mm): 95.3
- Z-style index: -1.561
- Empirical percentile (3-month total): 8.9%
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: 1 Oct 2026, 12:44 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.
No warnings cached yet or feed disabled. Staff must enable the source and run refresh.
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: 1 Oct 2026, 12:44 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).
widgets.json
· commodities.json
· spec.json