Contents tagged with prices

30 January 2024

The pound saw two significant shifts through 2019, which gave extra swing to the relative price of European and British dairy commodities.

14 July 2021

2019 has been a very challenging year for the beef sector. Here we look back on some of the key events in the beef industry over the last 12 months, and those that will remain relevant in 2020.

14 January 2020

As ever, there are some conflicting forces in the sheep market at the moment.

13 July 2021

With a current GB auction market store lamb price of around £57/head, how much room is there for store buyers to add value?

14 July 2021

China has upped its protein imports since an outbreak of African Swine Fever (ASF) last year, but what effect has this had on farmgate prices around the world?

30 January 2024

Despite Brexit uncertainty, exchange rate volatility, adverse weather and trade challenges, the value of milk in the UK has had its most stable period for more than a decade.

30 January 2024

Defra's provisional October milk price seems high compared to quoted standard litre prices. So what's driving up the overall average?

30 January 2024

Trends in EU wholesale pricing have differed across products, linked to the ease in which product can be sourced

30 January 2024

The overall price index rose 1.7% at the latest Global Dairy Trade (GDT) event. This is the fifth consecutive rise for the New Zealand based dairy commodity auction.

30 January 2024

UK wholesale butter prices have been at a discount to EU prices since February 2019 but the gap has recently closed

30 January 2024

It’s often difficult to marry up milk price changes quoted by companies based on standard litres, and the official average milk price paid in the UK, as quoted by Defra. September was no exception, with the Defra average put at 29.68ppl, up 0.88ppl on August, and ahead of the vast majority of “standard litre” prices quoted in our own milk price calculator. So, why the difference?

30 January 2024

How much consumer demand changes differs across products, and will depend on the size of the price change as well as how important the price is in the decision to purchase the good.

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