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Food: Prices

Volume 461: debated on Tuesday 19 June 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what the farmgate price of (a) apples, (b) beef, (c) cabbages, (d) carrots, (e) chicken, (f) eggs, (g) lamb, (h) onions, (i) pork, (j) potatoes, (k) tomatoes, (l) wheat and (m) milk was in each year since 1995. (142514)

The farmgate prices from 1995 up to 2006 for the listed commodities are shown in the following table. The prices for 2006 are provisional.

Commodity

Unit

1995

1996

1997

1998

1999

2000

2001

2002

2003

2004

2005

20061

Pork

p per kg

119

138

111

81

79

95

98

93

103

103

102

104

Beef

p per kg

123

106

97

86

92

90

88

91

95

101

102

111

Lamb

p per kg

236

283

239

192

180

196

n/a

233

271

263

250

262

Chicken

p per kg

84

91

86

77

72

71

71

69

72

74

73

77

Milk2

p per litre

24.9

25.0

22.1

19.4

18.3

16.9

19.3

17.1

18.0

18.5

18.5

18.0

Eggs

p per dozen

38

46

39

36

34

39

41

42

46

49

45

48

Apples —dessert

£ per tonne

419

528

526

480

437

358

352

385

460

349

402

608

Apples —culinary

£ per tonne

243

279

322

341

249

215

176

286

472

259

351

356

Carrots

£ per tonne

190

158

107

142

139

104

131

115

120

111

132

140

Tomatoes

£ per tonne

585

742

547

595

576

752

725

794

1042

751

871

993

Onions —dry

£ per tonne

256

136

145

194

109

88

119

113

115

129

88

137

Onions

£ per tonne

1,318

1,153

1,261

1,204

1,130

1,126

1,360

1,293

1,270

1,252

1,242

1,314

Potatoes

£ per tonne

188

100

66

122

119

83

111

81

103

117

99

124

Cabbages —spring

£ per tonne

310

329

302

316

311

290

454

290

337

315

324

289

Cabbages —summer

£ per tonne

239

173

189

231

225

289

257

225

253

254

258

274

Cabbages —winter

£ per tonne

179

220

158

182

179

151

169

199

225

217

184

179

Milling wheat

£ per tonne

120

122

101

84

81

74

82

71

83

86

73

83

Feed wheat

£ per tonne

110

111

89

75

73

66

75

63

75

76

66

78

n/a = not available

1 Provisional

2 Including bonus

Source:

Agriculture in the United Kingdom, DEFRA publication; MLC for pork, beef and lamb.