We are the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB). Our purpose is to inspire our farmers, growers and industry to succeed in a rapidly changing world. We equip the industry with easy to use, practical know-how, which they can apply straight away to make better decisions and improve their performance. AHDB is a statutory levy board and is funded by farmers, growers and others in the supply chain.
In this webinar we will look at the benefits of taking a step back and assessing what you do in your day-to-day activities.
Results from the third year of the RamCompare sheep breeding project. The data shows the commercial value of recorded rams and enables a deeper understanding of how a ram’s genetics can influence farm profitability and lamb products reaching the consumer.
How to keep your water supply resilient during extreme weather
A technical and business assessment for beef and sheep farmers to fill in, to help understand strengths and weaknesses and compare technical and business performance with similar farms in England.
Four easy-to-follow steps for assessing soil structure
To be a successful dry cow feed that doubles up as a calving paddock, standing hay needs careful planning. It should be a quality grass that has been part of the platform rotation and allowed to go to seed.
This version of the RGCL is specifically for industry specialists to aid farmers in their variety selections for mixtures.
Knowing the performance characteristics of grass and clover is immensely useful for grassland producers. It allows appropriate selection of varieties that will perform well for a particular system. The Recommended Grass and Clover Lists for England and Wales are drawn up after rigorous testing for attributes such as yield, persistency, quality and disease resistance.
All the latest facts and figures from the UK pig industry. From pig numbers to costs of production to imports, exports and consumption.
Catch-up on Tomato Brown Rugose Fruit Virus webinar and FAQs
Understand how different Brexit scenarios could affect your farm business incomes
Understand how Dairy trade could be affected once the UK leaves the EU, under both an agreed withdrawal and under a ‘no deal’ scenario.
Find out how the Cereals and Oilseeds trade could be affected once the UK leaves the EU, under both an agreed withdrawal and under a ‘no deal’ scenario.
Find out how Pork trade could be affected once the UK leaves the EU, under both an agreed withdrawal and under a ‘no deal’ scenario.
Understand how agri-food trade could be affected once the UK leaves the EU, under both an agreed withdrawal and under a ‘no deal’ scenario.
The aim of this report is to provide readers with an understanding of how Horticulture trade could be affected once the UK leaves the EU, under both an agreed withdrawal and under a ‘no deal’ scenario.
The aim of this report is to provide readers with an understanding of how Potato trade could be affected once the UK leaves the EU, under both an agreed withdrawal and under a ‘no deal’ scenario.
The aim of this report is to provide readers with an understanding of how Beef and Lamb trade could be affected once the UK leaves the EU, under both an agreed withdrawal and under a ‘no deal’ scenario.
This outlook is based on the latest data available, combining feedback and insight from contacts across the agri-food industry with AHDB sector specialists’ expertise. What follows is an examination of the factors affecting different sectors. Whether you’re using it for business planning, aiming to understand the market dynamics or just interested in a flavour of what agriculture faces in the year ahead, I hope you find this publication useful and informative.
Learn the things which set the highest-performing farms apart from the rest and improve your own farm performance
AHDB has revealed eight key factors that are the hallmarks of high performing farm businesses in a new report
Following on from ‘Brexit Scenarios – an impact assessment’, which focused on how Brexit could impact farmers’ profit levels, we now turn to potential implications post-farmgate.
AHDB commissioned this study to examine the impact of Brexit post-farmgate on the malting and milling industries, following feedback from levy payers on their earlier study ‘Brexit scenarios – an impact assessment’.
As Brexit draws closer, we hear much about the opportunities new export markets present for British food and farming products.
The UK undoubtedly has some of the most productive, dynamic and inspirational farming and growing businesses in the world.
Brexit is by far the biggest threat to Scottish agriculture and we need to get ready to meet this unprecedented challenge.
AHDB’s analysis of the big Brexit themes aims to improve industry understanding of the issues, as well as flagging the opportunities and threats they create.
In this report we explore opportunities for livestock products, from the beef, sheep meat, pork and dairy sectors.
In this edition of Horizon we will look at different agricultural support models from specific countries around the world and evaluate their impact on the agricultural industry.
AHDB’s series of Horizon reports has previously looked at some of the issues that will be critical in shaping the agri-food sector following Brexit.
23 May 2019
Farmers who have now completed our 2017 management training scheme identified combined savings to their businesses in excess of £600,000.
22 May 2019
The value of investing in a ram with the right genetic merit for your system has been highlighted in results from the third year of the RamCompare project.
21 May 2019
How usage of home delivery differs by age and how best to tailor your offering
21 May 2019
Lincolnshire and Herefordshire growers to demonstrate labour saving technologies
21 May 2019
Medics suggesting hospitals should stop serving sausages and bacon have misunderstood the IARC report
20 May 2019
Three industry organisations have joined forces to launch a brand new field-based arable event for Scotland.
20 May 2019
Richard Ling is the new Monitor Farmer in East Anglia
17 May 2019
We have partnered with rural consultancy, ADAS, to run free business planning workshops for farmers and growers.