Content related to the sectors: dairy

7 March 2025

Strong retail performance for meat and dairy during Valentine’s 2021

The Covid-19 pandemic did not stop us celebrating Valentine's Day, with total Valentine's food and drink sales up £85m compared to 2020.

24 March 2021

New dairy breeding indexes - HealthyCow and Gestation Length

Learn more about new dairy breeding indexes being released this year to help improve cow health and your breeding programme.

17 June 2021

Improving foot health on British dairy farms

Find out more about Improving foot health on British dairy farms

7 December 2021

We Eat Balanced drives positive rethink of red meat and dairy for consumers

Consumers are rethinking their attitudes towards red meat and dairy produced in Britain as the result of AHDB’s ground-breaking We Eat Balanced campaign launched earlier this year

30 January 2024

GB milk production forecast at 12.59bn litres for 2021/22

GB milk production is expected to reach 12.59bn litres for the 2021/22 season, up 0.4% (50m litres) on where we expect 2020/21 to end.

23 May 2022

What impact will input prices have in 2021?

How might feed, fertiliser and fuel costs move over the coming months?

19 March 2021

EU Exit Perspectives: Unlocking a world of opportunity for UK agrifood

In this week’s blog, AHDB’s Market Intelligence Director Phil Bicknell shares his take on a discussion with leading exporters about the short term impacts and long term opportunities for UK agri-food.

25 March 2021

Be ready for good weather

Grass growth rates are very varied across the country but generally slower than in previous years, and grass looks a lot worse than analysis suggests

25 March 2025

Driving performance over a lifetime

Joe Carter's Holstein herd achieves an impressive daily lifetime yield of 20.4 litres.

30 January 2024

UK yogurt trade deficit increases

The UK trade surplus for all dairy products fell in 2020. A large part of this was the increase in the trade deficit of yogurt, which grew by 54k tonnes (29%) to reach 237k tonnes in 2020.

18 March 2021

Reducing dairy electricity costs webinar

Catch up on this webinar exploring the principles of good energy efficiency with Strategic Dairy Farm hosts, John and Anna Booth from Rhual Dairy.

18 March 2021

AHDB report sheds light on future food trade with the US

New analysis highlights the risks and the opportunities a new trade deal with the US may bring for UK food and farming