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The uplift in cattle prices of recent weeks slowed in week ended 11th May read more

With more new season lambs entering the market, the dynamics of the trade have started to change read more

Provisional data for April milk deliveries of approximately 1,111m litres are 93m litres (7.7%) down on the previous year read more

In April, the DAPP averaged 160.9p/kg, almost 4p up on the month. At the same time, the average retail price came down by a small amount read more

The GB weekly average price fell by £7.68/t to £295.35/t and the free-buy average fell by £22.02/t to £368.39/t. read more

The first USDA estimates for world production in 2013-14 forecast record maize and wheat production, citing larger planted areas and a rebound in yields from the US (maize) and the Former Soviet Union (wheat) read more

The USDA has released its first soyabean supply and demand estimates for the new season read more

UK malting barley export prices are at €245/t FOB (spring, South Coast) w/e 11th April. read more

The latest National Statistics produced by Defra on the activity of UK hatcheries and poultry slaughterhouses. read more

USDA’s latest quarterly stocks report, released on 28th September, estimated US maize stocks (at 1st September) at 25.1m t, down 12% on the same point in 2011 and the lowest since 2004. read more

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PAPERS

Souped-up tractors will line up with three-cylinder workhorses as an entire farming community comes together to help a paralysed colleague. Friends of Hywel Wynne Davies have rallied around to organise a fundraising tractor pull in Denbighshire this Saturday in order to fund a specialised wheelchair for him. The 65-year-old tractor enthusiast was left paralysed from the chest down after a fall at home broke his spine in two places, bringing an end to his farm contracting business which he ran for 45 years. “If the shoe was on the other foot, I know Hywel would be the first to help us,” said Clwyd Spencer, one of the organisers who use to employ the former contractor. Competing alongside the professionals, in their own classes, will be standard farm tractors.
 

A Lincolnshire farmer has been ordered to pay more than £14,000 after being convicted of polluting a stream. Ronald Duguid, 69, admitted allowing slurry from manure heaps at Home Farm near Market Rasen to discharge into Black Dyke. The Environment Agency said it brought the prosecution after finding that water downstream from a discharge pipe was opaque and "clearly polluted". Duguid was fined £8,000 and told to pay £6,425 costs by Lincoln magistrates. He trades as Adam M Duguid and Son at the farm in the village of Spital in the Street. In mitigation, his lawyer told the court that the farm had since invested in "new systems" to prevent future pollution.

Large-scale crop failures are likely to become more common in the face of climate change, scientists warned today. Rising temperatures could mean events such as the wheat crisis in Russia this summer which pushed up food prices would become more frequent, researchers from the University of Leeds, the Met Office and the University of Exeter said. But they said the worst effects of climate change could be limited by investment in better farming and the development of new drought resistant or heat tolerant crops.In a study published in the journal Environmental Research Letters, the scientists warned that rising temperatures would make crops mature more quickly, reducing their yield, while extreme temperatures could also significantly reduce yields. More droughts would affect crops, while more intense monsoon rains could lead to flooding and crop damage, the researchers said.