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June 2025: Policy, cereal, beef, sheep and milk updates and a spotlight on farm business diversification.

Posted: Friday, 13 June 2025

Along with our regular monthly updates on policy, cereals, beef, sheep and milk, in this edition we also have a spotlight on farm business diversification.

Show Notes

00:33 News in Brief

05:08 Policy Briefs – Programme for Government 2025-2026, 2025 Climate Change Committee Report, Next Generation Farming – Apprenticeships, Bluetongue (BTV) Virus Vaccine, Scottish Upland Sheep Support Scheme (SUSSS), Key Dates.

15:33 Cereals – Global Supply Risks Mount, Demand-Side Developments, Malting Barley & Feed Barley, Rapeseed Mixed Market, Oats, Overall Outlook.

22:13 Beef – Young bull numbers impacting on prices, Strong demand for manufacturing beef, Store Cattle Trade Back, Room for more?

29:02 Sheep – UK EU Strategic Partnership, Sheep Trade, Export Market, Protein Consumption

33:18 Milk – Production data, Farm-gate prices, Dairy commodities and market indicators, Antimicrobial resistance in calves, Rabobank global outlook

39:22 Sector focus – Farm Diversification.

51:05 Further articles – Croft Diversification, Reducing Antimicrobial Use in Scottish Dairy Farms, A couple more cows per herd each year would realise Scotland’s economic potential by 2030, Grain Marketing Podcast, Bluetongue, Bee Health Awareness Day

FAS Resources:

Newsletters – Business & Policy Edition – FAS

Other Links:

The Natural Environment (Scotland) Bill

The Land Reform (Scotland) Bill

Scotland’s Carbon Budgets Report 2025

Lantra Scotland – land based pre-apprenticeship

scotland@lantra.co.uk

Report your use of the bluetongue serotype 3 (BTV-3) vaccine – GOV.UK

GOV.uk – Bluetongue: news, information and guidance for livestock keepers

GOV.WALES

The Scottish Government – gov.scot