Full results from the Farmers Weekly/NFU Inputs Price
Monitor have now been posted on the NFU's website, giving a
detailed picture of how much farmers are paying for their
inputs.
The full analysis, which is available to all farmers, not just
NFU members, can be found
by following
this link.
As well as providing a full regional breakdown of prices paid by
farmers for things like red diesel, kerosene, electricity and
glyphosate, the
NFU's analysis also shows the range of prices entered by
farmers in the survey.
The results also include insightful commentary from the NFU's
farm inputs adviser Hannah Moule, examining some of the trends and
factors at play in the all-important farm inputs sector.
For example, the analysis exposes the link between volume and
price in the fertiliser market. Farmers buying ammonium nitrate in
less than 20t loads paid an average £187/t, while those buying
bigger loads paid just £175/t.
Meanwhile, Kent farmer Andrew Brice has won a year's free
subscription to Farmers Weekly - worth about £90 - for taking part
in the Inputs Price Monitor.
His name was chosen at random from the 200-plus farmers who have
so far entered details of their costs in our new inputs
database.
Andrew, who farms 420ha of arable crops at Church Farm, Hoo,
near Rochester, said the IPM was a positive initiative that would
help all farmers find out what they should be paying. "It's more
accurate than pub talk," he said.
Farmers Weekly and the NFU are obviously keen to see as many
farmers taking part as possible in order to provide the whole
industry with the most accurate data possible.
The
survey form
is available at all times, it only takes about 10 minutes to fill
in and is, of course, strictly confidential.
So if you've not done so already - or even if you have, but have
now got some updated costs - then please log on to the
Inputs Price
Monitor to share that information with your fellow farmers
now.