Contents tagged with Cost of production

12 June 2024

The latest AHDB quarterly cost of production and margin estimations have been published for Q1 2024.

26 June 2024

With significant price fluctuations over the last few years, and increasing costs, how have net margins for UK wheat farmers been impacted?

28 August 2024

Knowing and managing your cost of production is important for achieving a positive net margin. So, how does your farm compare with the regional and national averages, and where are your greatest opportunities for improvement?

26 June 2024

In this final article, we analyse the cost of production (sum of all costs to produce that crop) and net margin (income less all costs, before subsidies) achieved by each nation and consider how we see the UK competing in the future

26 June 2024

Budgeting meetings focused on the coming harvest and what challenges that may bring, helped Arable Business Group members consider their next steps.

2 January 2025

The agricultural price index (API) has seen minor movement over the last few months, providing some stability to key input costs.

28 August 2024

Farmbench data shows that the bottom 25% of suckler herds produce the most calves per 100 cows and heifers put to the bull. So, how do the top 25% achieve a better net margin with fewer calves?

26 June 2024

As highlighted in the first and second articles of this series, AHDB submits data representing a range of ‘typical’ UK farms into an international benchmark database each year.

26 June 2024

How the UK stacks up internationally in terms of overheads, in particular labour, machinery, and land costs.

28 August 2024

UK farming systems are incredibly diverse. Why do comparable farms, with comparable systems, perform so differently?

2 May 2024

For all InterPig countries, feed accounts for the largest cost, usually averaging around 60% of total pig cost of production. In 2022, this soared up, contributing to 70% of total costs.

6 February 2024

The latest Agricultural Price Index (API) for all agricultural outputs decreased by 6.5% year on year in November 2023, however it is likely agriculture will continue to endure relatively high input costs through 2024.

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