Feed prices rise again

I’ve just come back from the livestock feed merchant where I had a very unpleasant surprise when I went to pay for a new batch of poultry feed.

Prices have risen again — and very steeply.

Organic layers pellets have gone from £404 a tonne to £499.60 a tonne. That’s a 23.7 per cent rise in seven weeks and is on top of a rise of 3.5 per cent four weeks before that.