UK inflation has risen to 3.6% overall, an increase that is also reflected in retail prices for poultry.
According to the AIMS meat and poultry inflation report for June 2025, different cuts of meat and poultry have risen in price in the past month.
“Using the red meat supermarket price report from AHDB and our own weekly market monitoring of supermarket chicken prices the month on month average price increase by 1.8%” said Tony Goodger, head of communications at AIMS.
“Overall, beef rose by an average of 3.2% and, most notable among the cuts was lean beef mince which increased by £0.82kg (9.15%), no doubt driven by the warm weather and barbecues. Standard mince nudged up by 4.6% (+£0.28kg) whilst sirloin and fillet steaks both saw increases in excess of £1.00 per kg”.
“Looking at chicken the Aldi price match probably drove the price for chicken wings down as they exited June 5.5% cheaper than in May. However, and again probably down to the warm weather and barbecues chicken breast portions (+6.7% / £0.49kg) and chicken thigh fillets (+5.1% / £0.42kg) showed the biggest moves.
“Year-on-year meat and poultry price inflation for June stands at 12.77%,” said Goodger, “with just pork (2.52%) below the ONS CPI inflation figure of 4.1%”.
Goodger said: “If the government are serious about trying to get food inflation under control they must at how some of their policies are impacting costs along the supply chain. Most notably labour costs which are being driven up as a result of changes to immigration rules making it far harder to recruit skilled butchers to come and work in the UK and we are expecting a further hit to production and processing in the poultry and egg sectors as a result of what we believe is a hurried change to rules on the catching and handling of poultry, which is again due from 22 July”.