New autumn POS kit for butchers
As the nights draw in and temperatures drop, hearty warming dishes come back into favour, EBLEX has produced a new promotional kit designed to help butchers boost sales of beef and lamb this autumn. The kit, which is currently being dispatched to members of EBLEX’s Quality Standard Mark Scheme, contains three separate elements: ‘Slowly Does It’, ‘Halloween’ and ‘Discover Lamb Shoulder.’ ‘Slowly Does It’ features a collection of...
Guidance for pig producers on destocking
BPEX has published guidance for pig producers on strategic de-stocking and reviewing slaughter weight decisions. Andrew Knowles, BPEX Head of Communications and Knowledge Transfer said: “The cost of pig production has rocketed as a result of high feed prices and, with the pig price not moving upwards enough to cover this, many pig producers are thinking hard about what direction their businesses should take. “Some may be thinking of...
NPA fears European pork and bacon supply is contracting fast
Britain’s National Pig Association says a world shortage of pork and bacon next year is now unavoidable. It also claims that British supermarkets can protect consumers from shortages and steep price rises if they pay Britain’s loss-making pig farmers a fair price, to help them remain in production. New data shows the European Union pig herd is declining at a significant rate, and this is a trend that is being mirrored around the...
Food to move higher up the political agenda
British food looks set to move up the political agenda as, for the second time in a fortnight, NFU Peter Kendall joined key figures from the UK’s agricultural sector for a farming lunch at Downing Street. Following last week’s Feeding Britain’s Future: Skills for Work Week, where Kendall highlighted the career opportunities available in the farming sector, this time he set out on behalf of the industry how farming can keep delivering...
In search of Yorkshire’s finest pies and products
The 23rd Great Yorkshire Pork Pie, Sausage & Products Competition takes place this year on 4th November at Bradford’s Cedar Court Hotel. Organised by the Confederation of Yorkshire Butchers Councils, the competition, supported by a trade fair, again features flagship pork pie and sausage classes, from which supreme champions and reserve supreme champions will be crowned. The supreme champion pie will receive the Ted Jones Trophy,...
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