AHDB levy rates agreed for 2022/23

Levy rates applied to farmers, growers and others in the supply chain for the financial year 2022/23 have been approved by UK Ministers, effective from 1 April 2022.

Rates in the sectors covered by the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) – Beef, Sheep and Pigs in England; Cereals and Oilseeds in the UK; and Milk in GB) remain unchanged from the 2021/22 rates (see table below).

Ministers have also agreed to set a zero levy rate in the Horticulture and Potatoes sectors, while the legislation is still in the process of being changed to implement their earlier decision to end the current statutory levies for those specific sectors from 1 April 2022.

AHDB Chief Executive Tim Rycroft said: “The AHDB is changing and committed to putting our levy payers at the heart of everything we do.

“The agreed rates will help enable us to deliver targeted services while levy payers are being given a greater say this Spring in how their levy should be invested to shape the future.

“The priorities and programmes of work that levy payers want to see will inform the future levy rates to help them succeed in this rapidly changing world.”

Further information about what levy payers get for their levy can be found on the AHDB website ahdb.org.uk/shapethefuture