Prices & Trends

There are no reports of immediate and significant shortages of key inputs but farmers need to be prepared for some delivery delays

Growers were facing a lack of labour, soaring input prices and the HGV driver crisis

If farming is the start of the food supply chain, then there is no doubt that the logjams emerging further down the line will start to be felt as the abattoir network and wider processing sector struggle with a range of external factors.

Spanish supermarket giant Mercadona has raised the price of milk following protests by Spanish farming unions.

Romania and Ukraine will be major players on the international stage, as both countries report decent quality and better than average yields.

Beef prices remain well ahead of this time last year

The dairies announced a merger last week which they said would help them compete with the largest players in the industry

Crop losses from last week’s European storms have already led to price rises

In drawing together the disparate strands of social inequality, diet-related ill-health and the farming systems that underpin the food system, Henry Dimbleby’s National Food Strategy is a vast and challenging piece of work.

NFU Scotland has urged Pilgrim’s to stop operating pricing practices which they say are putting the sector at risk