Farmers Weekly 2005

Stephen E

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
South Northants
When our son was born, I kept a whole year of Farmers Weekly magazines to look back on. It's easy to forget what we were selling produce for back then and surviving. I'm not sure how well this has scanned, but wheat @ £61.50, barley £64.60 OSR £122.90.
Arable land £3000 / acre.
Interesting to look back now and see the changes in just 12 years.
I'll post a few more pages as I get to them.
Farmers Weekly FEB 2005.jpg
 

Happy

Member
Location
Scotland
Remember it well. Wheat & Barley barely moved from between £60-£70t in ten years from 1996.
Often wonder how we did it. Costs were much lower of course. N would be around £100t. Diesel half what it is now and chems a lot cheaper not to mention more effective.
 

Wiking

Member
Location
Sweden
Very interesting indeed, land for £3000/acre especially. Recently in Sweden the price for the best land is pushing 10-12 grand an acre and I'm guessing it's similair or even higher in the UK. Please scan more if you can, like I said it's very interesting to read :)
 

Kevtherev

Member
Location
Welshpool Powys
Remember it well. Wheat & Barley barely moved from between £60-£70t in ten years from 1996.
Often wonder how we did it. Costs were much lower of course. N would be around £100t. Diesel half what it is now and chems a lot cheaper not to mention more effective.

Diesel in 1996 was 11p if I remember correctly [emoji106]
 

7610 super q

Never Forgotten
Honorary Member
In a similar vein, I came across a Riverlea tractors ad in an early 2000's edition of Profi.
Not one single S/H tractor was above £20k. And fresh examples at that.
 

Frodo2

Member
I thought by 2005 things had improved, but farming at the turn of the century really was dire. All sectors were in trouble. Yes things cost more now, but you dont have to buy them and most of us have benifited from the capital gains.
 

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Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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