Prices & Trends

Exclusive contracts that only allow dairy farmers to sell milk to one buyer should be broken up to free up farmers to try direct selling, supplying local food businesses and engaging much more with communities where they live, according to farmers taking part in a workshop at Dairy-Tech.

British Sugar is seeking ‘significant’ price rises from its customers, as gas inflation has left it facing soaring costs.

British Sugar is seeking significant price rises from its customers, as gas inflation has left it facing soaring costs.

It follows last month’s announcement of a 1ppl rise for May, taking the total rise to 3.3ppl

Processors have continued to announce large price rises for May, with Meadow Foods price standing at 41ppl

Farmers were also reporting delays in deliveries of the fertiliser they have ordered

The retailer has announced a substantial jump in acknowledgement of the unprecedented inflation in farm costs

It comes after unrest from supermarket dairy suppliers as aligned prices lagged behind the non-aligned

Government grants must support commercial woodland in order to give farmers an incentive to plant trees amid soaring demand for home-grown timber following Russian sanctions, forestry experts have said.

As uncertainty remains over Black Sea supplies and exports, Cedric Porter takes a look at the effect of the conflict on the global wheat trade.