Content related to the sectors: dairy

21 February 2025

Epidemiology of cryptosporidiosis in farm livestock, assessment of zoonotic risk and development of control strategies (PhD)

Epidemiology of cryptosporidiosis in farm livestock, assessment of zoonotic risk and development of control strategies

2 January 2024

Red meat and dairy retail volumes up on pre-pandemic Christmas

Once again, Christmas provided a positive lift for grocery sales, reaching £11.7 billion over the month of December according to Kantar.

30 January 2024

Organic milk deliveries put at 494m litres for 2021

The first full calendar year where we have organic milk deliveries data puts overall volumes at 494m litres for 2021

30 January 2024

December GB milk production still behind 2020/21 season

GB milk production provisionally totalled 1,014 million litres in December 2021 based on the latest daily deliveries data.

1 February 2022

The environmental impact of farming - consumer perceptions

AHDB’s recent trust and transparency research conducted by Blue Marble in August 2021, found that the environment is important to 48% of consumers when choosing food.

24 January 2022

Blog: New dairy sector council chair Lyndon Edwards

Lyndon talks about his new role and standing up for dairy farmers

6 January 2022

Horizon blog: What do the new environmental schemes mean for English farming?

Blog with analyst Jess Corsair looking at the new environmental schemes announced at OFC

30 January 2024

UK milking herd at June steady in 2021

The UK milking herd held steady at 1.85 million head in the Defra June survey – but the devolved nations had some shifts.

3 February 2025

Barriers to healthy eating

When choosing what to eat, 55% of consumers claim health is important. Yet only 28% of total food and drink servings are chosen for health reasons.

30 January 2024

Can the market sustain farmgate price increases?

There have been a flurry of milk price announcements, with many buyers raising farmgate prices by over 3ppl between November and January. But how much of the uplift can the market sustain?

30 January 2024

Q3 processing cost increases applied to market indicators

Rising input costs through Q3 have added around 0.5ppl to both AMPE and MCVE compared with 2020

20 December 2021

Focus on team work to tackle lameness

Despite having proven management programmes available such as the Healthy Feet Programme, and knowing that teamwork is what’s needed to implement these, it still isn’t happening enough at the individual farm level. Sara Pederson looks at why is this the case.