Contents tagged with Cost of production

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.

30 April 2024

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.

2 May 2024

The latest AHDB quarterly cost of production and margin estimations have been published for 2023 Q4.

28 August 2024

What are the traits that bring success in beef and lamb enterprises?

25 January 2024

Our series examining pork cost of production in selected countries has been developed based on data collected by InterPIG (17 countries)

2 May 2024

2022 was a year of change in the global pork market, feed, fuel, and energy prices rocketed, but a generally tight supply provided strength to prices.

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