API For April 2011

The agricultural prices index for April published by Defra for prices received by producers for agricultural products for the total of all products in the monthly series in April 2011 was 166.4. To put this index number into some kind of context the index number highest since January 2010 was in March 2011 (last month) at 167.3 and the lowest was in April 2010 with 139.1. The index for purchase prices paid by producers for agricultural inputs in the monthly series for April 2011 was 148.7. The highest index since January 2010 was in January 2011 at 150.0 and January and March were lowest at 130.7.