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UK feed wheat futures (May-25) fell marginally yesterday (£0.20/t) to close at £168.80/t. The Nov-25 contract ended the session at £187.25/t, unchanged from Tuesday’s close. Old crop domestic futures ...
GB milk production for the 2025/26 season is forecast to reach 12.6 billion litres, 1.2% more than the previous milk year, according to our March forecast update The past milk year was divided into ...
High domestic prices have limited growth in export volumes for both beef and lamb in the first month of 2025. Meanwhile, imports show a far more mixed picture between the sectors, with beef imports ...
In the fourth quarter of 2024, calf registrations to dairy dams in GB totalled 314,000 head according to the latest BCMS data. This is a decline of 46,000 (12.7%) head compared to the same period in ...
UK feed wheat futures (May-25) rose slightly yesterday, up £0.15/t from Tuesday’s close, to end the session at £174.60/t. The new crop contract (Nov-25) closed at £189.35/t, up £1.45/t over the same ...
Chinese milk production is showing signs of slowing and there is optimism for domestic demand growth. Lower supplies of milk are shifting trade dynamics for the largest dairy importing country in the ...
Over three-quarters of farms in England and Scotland of 50 ha (124 acres) or more in size will be affected by the changes to Inheritance Tax, a new independent analysis from AHDB shows. We have ...
The UK Weed Resistance Action Group (WRAG) has confirmed the first case of resistance to the herbicide glyphosate in a UK weed species. Resistance at the maximum label rate of glyphosate was ...
From fitness trends to food purchases, consumers increasingly make decisions based on their finances, personal health goals, ethical considerations and sustainability criteria. Among these, attitudes ...
Worldwide production of beef has been high in 2024, coupled with strong demand from key players in the global market. We take a look at the factors influencing beef markets in key countries through ...
Sign up to receive the Weekly Market Report and Grain Market Daily from AHDB. Earlier today, Defra released the final estimates for 2024 UK cereal and oilseed ...
Cattle slaughter and beef production so far this year have been notably higher than our previous forecasts released in July. The revised forecast looks at the remainder of 2024 and ahead into 2025. UK ...