For many, values have been tested. And possibly affirmed. We all have personal and professional values to show and to notice in those we work with or sell to.

We’ve just shared annual value of our AF Group Aginflation Index.

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Chris Nicolaou is AF Group's Chief Commercial Officer (Image: AF Group)

If you’ve not come across it before, it’s calculated by crunching the prices paid for the £300m of farm and rural business inputs we have procured over the last year and measuring whether they are up or down.

The 2025 Index shows the continued and steady upward creep of many ag inputs, but not all, over the last year.

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Our members and others value it as an independent measurement and comparison with what is happening with the Retail Price Index, which has rising by more than AgInflation over the same period.

One AF Member commented that our index has produced “very interesting figures where the disparity between RPI and AgInflation........

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