Dairy cattle and rearing calf prices

Updated 10 November 2023

• The England and Wales liveweight auction market data reported on this webpage is licensed by the Livestock Auctioneers Association (LAA), who have made the decision to take direct control of the creation, publication, and dissemination of this data. 

• From 1 January 2024, liveweight auction market data will no longer be available via the AHDB website. The responsibility for producing England and Wales market data is being moved by LAA to a third-party data partner, with AHDB ceasing to cleanse or aggregate this data. As part of this change, AHDB will be unable to publish Scottish or GB data or provide cleansed data to licensed publishers and users.

• AHDB will continue to provide independent expert analysis of the domestic livestock industry through our regular publications, analysis, data and outlooks. AHDB will explore how more insight on liveweight prices and throughputs can be provided in the future for levy payers.

These figures provide a summary of average prices from store sales across GB auction markets. The price per head and volumes are reported for Holstein Friesian (x) cows, over and under 36 months, and rearing calves by breed.

• Figures are based on statistical months to account for five-week months. Any month-on-month comparisons for numbers sold should be treated with caution.
• Figures are changed retrospectively as reports from dispersal sales come in.
• Figures from January 2017 no longer include pedigree prices. Pedigree sales prices can be accessed from the Holstein UK sales reports (see below).

This dataset was produced by our Data and Analysis Team. To find out more about the team, please visit the Data and Analysis team page.

If you need any further help, please email Martin, Dorian, Gavin or Esther at datum@ahdb.org.uk

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