British retail giants top Compassion in World Farming’s European Good Farm Animal Welfare Awards

British retail giants Marks & Spencer and Sainsbury’s were joined on stage by German retailer Kaufland to receive a prestigious Retailer Award from Compassion in World Farming at its European Good Farm Animal Welfare Awards held in Paris. M&S scooped not one but two accolades being named Best Retailer and Best Performing Retailer; Sainsbury’s was presented with the Best Retailer Marketing Award while Kaufland was awarded the...

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New appointment at CSB-System International

CSB-System International, which provides evelopment and installation of business software solutions for the meat industry, has appointed Paul Griffin as international business development director. Paul joins from Ishida Europe where he was most recently marketing and business development director, devising and implementing a global strategy across multiple regions that enabled the business to identify and enter into new markets and...

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Pilot beef efficiency scheme to utilise beef from the dairy herd

Morrisons is launching a new scheme that will apply the latest thinking on bovine genetics with the aim of helping to better utilise beef from the dairy herd. The scheme will start in the South West region but if successful, Arla will open up the scheme to all of their dairy farmers across the UK in the New Year. Morrisons believes there are efficiency issues in the finishing of dairy beef and hopes that by applying mathematics and...

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ABP trainee wins top student prize

A former chef who had so many unanswered questions about the nature of food that he became a food scientist has won top prize in the Society of Food Hygiene and Technology (SOFHT) Student Awards with his dissertation on managing food safety threat Campylobacter. Daniel Walker entered the awards, designed to encourage young people into a career in food manufacturing and technology just as he was completing his degree in Food Science...

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Morrisons is first processor to log identity of each lamb through its doors

Morrisons will become the first meat processor to log the identity of each lamb that passes through its doors and provide farmers with information about its final weight and grade. This has been made possible by the compulsory introduction of EiD Tags in Scottish lambs. Lamb producers are currently able to get key information such as carcass yields, weights and grades through the Morrisons website, but would not have been able to...

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