Meat Management Industry Awards 2015 – are your products in it to win it?
Entries in the product categories for the 2015 Meat Management Industry Awards are expected to reach record levels. If you’ve not yet entered any products there is still time….so enter now Products will be cooked, tested, tasted and judged by industry experts over three days in March at The Regional Food Academy at Harper Adams University. The video below will give you a flavour from last year’s awards: [youtube...
Tican and Danish Crown to merge
Denmark’s two cooperative slaughterhouse companies have agreed to combine in a joint company. Tican, which had been looking to find an economic business partner for some time, said of the outcome, “With this solution, we have found a model that not only secures a future for Tican, but which also ensures that our owners – Danish farmers – can continue to contribute to value creation in the Danish food cluster. “Originally, we never...
Smaller markets help fuel beef export growth in 2014
Demand from smaller markets helped drive a 6 per cent growth in the volume of beef exports from the UK in 2014, according to EBLEX. Full export figures for the year revealed that the UK exported 112,055 tonnes of beef in 2014, compared to 105,311 shipped the previous year. Among the highlights were the performances of shipments to smaller European markets. Exports to Greece were up fourfold and increased by 23 per cent to Denmark....
Proposal for one of Britain’s first industrial style pig farms rejected
Permission for one of Britain’s first industrial style farms housing 25,000 pigs has been refused. The unit at Foston, Derbyshire, has been the subject of fierce opposition in a four-year-long fight that saw locals, campaigners and celebrities oppose the proposed farm due to its size. The Environment Agency has now turned down the permit application by Midland Pig Producers citing the health risks from bio-aerosols and ammonia,...
NFU reveals alarming forecast for UK’s self-sufficiency
A new report published by the NFU has revealed disturbing new figures relating to the UK’s self-sufficiency in food. It states that at current rates, just 53 per cent of the nation’s food needs will be produced from home farms in the next 25 years, with potential for serious implications for the British economy, food security and employment. With the population expected to boom over the coming decades, there will be around 13 million...
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