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Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

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Mr. Hoyle: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if she will make a statement on farm-gate prices paid to farmers for supply of (a) dairy produce, (b) meat and (c) fruit and vegetables. [221690] Alun Michael: The information requested is as follows: Dairy produce Nearly all milk produced in the UK leaves the farm as raw milk which is then processed into milk for liquid consumption or manufactured milk products (cheese, butter etc.). The farm-gate price of milk was provisionally 18.5 pence per litre in 20041, 9 per cent. higher than in 2000 (when farm-gate milk prices were at their lowest in recent years). Meat In 2004 the average price for clean cattle in the UK was provisionally 101.2 pence per kilogram liveweight2, 13 per cent. higher than in 2000. The average price for clean pigs in the UK was provisionally 102.7 pence per kilogram deadweight, 9 per cent. higher than in 2000. The average price for clean sheep in Great Britain was provisionally 263.6 pence per kilogram dressed carcase weight, 34 per cent. higher than in 2000. 1 Survey of the value of milk purchased from producers conducted in England and Wales (Defra), Scotland (SEERAD) and NI (DARDNI). 2 Meat and Livestock Commission market data. Fruit and Vegetables--Selected farm-gate prices of fruit and vegetables £ per tonne1 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 2000 2004 Percentage change Dessert apples 357.8 376.4 5 Culinary apples 215.3 378.1 76 Pears 283.3 348.1 23 Cabbages 192.3 204.8 7 Carrots 103.6 194.0 87 Tomatoes 751.6 724.0 -4 Cauliflower 274.1 289.0 5 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1 Wholesale market prices adjusted to convert to farm-gate prices.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

432 c538-9W; 221690

Session

2004-05

Subjects

Dairy farming Farmers Fruit Prices Meat products Agricultural products Vegetables

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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