LivestockThe East of England's Swaffham group has become the Outdoor Pig Environmental Risk Reduction Programme, chaired by AHDB, to gather evidence on reducing outdoor pig farming's impact on water and to work with regulators.
CropsAHDB's autumn forecast puts the peak for phoma fungicide treatment in oilseed rape around mid-October, later than in recent years, because many areas had more dry days.
LivestockArla and Muller have raised farmgate prices again while First Milk and Barbers hold, as autumn grass and calving lift British milk output and a European surplus weighs on markets.
LivestockAHDB's October burst of its "This is British Pork" campaign adds a TV advert, an influencer-led Healthy Savings challenge and £6 family recipe videos, after a February push reached more than 40 million consumers.
CropsAHDB's final harvest report shows wheat down 11% and oats 14% below the five-year mean, while oilseed rape came in 19% above it at 4 t/ha.
An 11-strong Chinese delegation and four US food-service buyers toured UK farms and processors; China takes nearly 40% of UK pigmeat exports, much of it offal.
AHDB analysis shows Brazil shipped over 3,200 tonnes of beef to the UK in August, up 52% on a year earlier, after rushing 20,000 tonnes into the EU ahead of the 3 September ban, while Australia redirects beef away from China; Irish beef exports to the UK were worth an estimated €1.7 billion in 2025.
