New agricultural and horticultural levy rates

Minister for Sustainable Food and Farming, Lord Rooker, has announced that he and Ministers in the Devolved Administrations had approved levy rates proposed by the newly established Agriculture and Horticulture Levy Board for the 2008/9 financial year.

The levy rates for most sectors, including the cereals and oilseeds, beef and lamb (England only), milk and potato sectors, will remain the same. The exceptions are the pig sector where there will be a 10p reduction in the producer levy for 2008/9 and the horticulture sector where the levy rates for mushrooms are now differentiated between agaricus and non-agaricus mushrooms.

The levy rates have been announced following a consultation in 2008 by the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board on their draft Corporate Plan.