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Beef & Lamb
27 October 2022
With pressure mounting for many this year due to the rising input costs and difficult silage season, farmers are having to investigate different wintering strategies.
2 August 2022
Two decades ago, our lamb exports to the US ceased – locking UK producers out of a valuable market, home to over 300 million people. Since that time, it has been a long-held ambition of AHDB to reopen the market and provide another lucrative destination for our sheep meat exports
14 July 2021
The all-prime GB average deadweight cattle price rose 5.9p in the week ending 16 May.
8 June 2020
Join AHDB’s Animal Health & Welfare Scientist ,Siwan Howatson, and Helen Mathieu, Area Sales Manager at Germinal for a webinar looking at the use of red and white clover to improve performance.
14 July 2021
Last year was a tough year for the UK beef industry. To balance the market imports fell and exports rose, let's take a look at by how much.
13 July 2021
During the first quarter of 2020 New Zealand beef exports grew, while sheep meat exports declined. Production in New Zealand only really became affected by coronavirus in April, which will only then have limited available volumes of export.
13 July 2021
Production took a sharp decline during April to just 21,000 tonnes cwe. UK lamb kill declined 21% (227,800 head) year-on-year, to 835,900 head.
14 July 2021
UK beef and veal production in April 2020 fell 3% on the year to 68,800 tonnes, according to Defra statistics.
13 July 2021
Liveweight sheep prices gained again in the week ending 13 May
14 July 2021
After a sluggish start to the growing season, grass growth has since been more positive.
14 July 2021
During the week ending 9 May, the GB deadweight all prime average increased 0.4p, to £3.24/kg. Economic uncertainty will continue to influence the finished cattle market. This week the government made several announcements, bringing some clarity to working arrangements.
30 January 2024
We take a look at how COVID-19 has affected key input markets.