Week 5 (ending 2.02.2025) - butter, cheddar and emmental prices were up; butter prices now at 7460 EUR/t, +0.7% last week. agriculture.ec.europa.eu/data-and-analy… #MilkMOEU #EUAgri

Hitting the nail on the head

Having proposed drastic changes to inheritance tax rules for farmers and other family businesses, Rachel Reeves challenged the industry to suggest an alternative that raised the same tax. Today the NFU and other organisations from across the industry met with the Treasury to

Keir Starmer a week ago: "You can’t have tax breaks for some of the wealthiest if you want NHS waiting lists to come down." Rachel Reeves "here are some tax breaks"

Brilliant, brilliant Banksy

Milk price holding firm for now, but dairy margins remain fragile. Read the latest thedairygroup.co.uk/uploads/MPE_-_…

So 100% of farmers with 100% of the land received BPS at £230/ha with Mid-tier or Higher tier stewardship available on top. Now 36% of farmers with 50% of the land receive SFI and residual BPS at £80/ha with residual stewardship on other land. Many small farmers are missing out.

Final speaker update bsky.app/profile/britma…

The U.S. has already put some additional tariffs in place on our trading partners and the administration is threatening more tariffs. Our trading partners are responding with talk of retaliatory tariffs on U.S. dairy products. on.hoards.com/250327-2

Last day of the hedgelaying season today.

EU milk prices firm on a pre Easter trade. Read the latest: thedairygroup.co.uk/uploads/MPE_-_…

Anyone else seen a complete collapse in the Swallow and House Martin population? By now the sky should be full of birds flying around the cows and calves but so far I’ve only see odd single swallow. Merlin suggests the rest of the bird species diversity is unchanged.

April production is expected to be 7% up on Apr24 and >5% above the 3 & 5 year averages, the highest production since before milk quotas. UK milk price is being held up by the weaker supply through much of the EU. Read more at; thedairygroup.co.uk/uploads/MPE_-_…

Exclusive: Labour will be making deep cuts to the nature friendly farming fund in the spending review, with many farmers unable to apply. Drastically changes concept of post brexit farming payments meant to improve nature on all farmland theguardian.com/environment/20…

The Farmers Weekly has recently published an article on parlour maintenance where Ian Ohnstad discusses parlour servicing and testing, preventing milking operator fatigue, feeder calibration & energy usage. fwi.co.uk/livestock/hous…

Week 22 (ending 1.06.2025) - butter, smp, cheddar and gouda prices went down last week, butter prices are now at 7310 EUR/t, -0.6% last week. agriculture.ec.europa.eu/data-and-analy… #MilkMOEU #EUAgri

EU milk collection in Jan.-April 2025 agriculture.ec.europa.eu/data-and-analy… #MilkMOEU #EUAgri

EU avg. farm gate milk price in June 2025: 52.90 c/kg; estimated price for July 2025: 53.2c/kg (+0.5%) agriculture.ec.europa.eu/data-and-analy… #MilkMOEU #EUAgri

EU Butter continues to soften tipping UK markets and farmgate prices down. Supply growth has pushed markets into decline.