Latest Industry News – Page 154
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NewsLMC Northern Ireland CEO says don't cut back on meat consumption now
LMC chief executive, Ian Stevenson, has welcomed in 2020 with a positive message that the red meat industry in Northern Ireland is open and ready for business as the new decade begins. He also urged consumers not to cut back on meat in 2020.LMC's CEO, Ian Stevenson."As we head into ...
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NewsBK UK purchases 34 new locations from Kout Food Group
BK UK Group, the master franchisee for Burger King in the UK, has purchased KFG Quickserve Limited, the Burger King business operating 34 restaurants UK-wide from Kout Food Group.This acquisition will increase the Burger King UK company owned portfolio to 136 restaurants, within a total UK estate of 517 restaurants.With ...
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NewsNFU president's new year message urges ambition
In her New Year message, NFU president, Minette Batters, predicts that: "2020 is going to be monumental."MInette Batters NFU president.Following the UK's two Brexit extensions and the General Election she said: "We find ourselves in the familiar position of trying to anticipate where the farming industry, and indeed the country, ...
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News£3 billion funding announced for British farmers
Reacting to The Chancellor's announcement of nearly £3 billion of funding for British farmers for 2020, environment secretary, Theresa Villiers, said: “Outside the EU we will have a simpler, fairer funding system – one that rewards farmers for enhancing our environment and safeguarding our high animal welfare standards."The Chancellor, Savid ...
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NewsRed meat myths and misinformation dispelled at healthcare conference
Over 150 nurses and healthcare professionals have had the red meat record put straight at a recent healthcare conference.HCC staff at the Nursing in Practice Conference.Hybu Cig Cymru – Meat Promotion Wales (HCC), Agricultural and Horticultural Development Board (AHDB) and Quality Meat Scotland (QMS) were present at the Nursing in ...
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NewsGressingham Foods to provide 2,000 turkeys to vulnerable people this Christmas
This Christmas FareShare is working with duck and specialty poultry supplier Gressingham Food to ensure that 2,000 turkeys that would otherwise have gone to waste will instead end up on the plates of thousands of vulnerable people this Christmas.The additional costs of packaging and transporting the turkeys was covered by ...
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NewsNew CEO at Bettcher Industries
Bettcher Industries, Inc., developer and manufacturer of equipment for food processing, foodservice, industrial, and other operations, has announced that Tim Swanson has joined Bettcher as its chief executive officer.Swanson has also become a member of Bettcher’s Board of Directors. Swanson will succeed Don Esch, who is retiring at the end ...
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NewsPromotion work pays off as Welsh Lamb sees jump in Middle East exports
Welsh red meat levy body Hybu Cig Cymru – Meat Promotion Wales (HCC) has hailed export figures which show a major boost in the lamb trade to the Middle East.Welsh Lamb on sale at a supermarket in Qatar.While Europe is still the destination for the large majority of Welsh Lamb ...
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NewsBritish sausages and bacon health risk links may have been inaccurate
Researchers from Queen’s University Belfast have questioned the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) blanket classification of processed meat as carcinogenic after finding significant evidence gaps between processed meat treated with nitrites and nitrite-free processed meat.Not all processed meat, however, contains nitrites. British and Irish sausages, for example, are not processed with ...
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NewsMartin Kennedy returned as vice president of NFUS
NFU Scotland’s top team for 2020 will be president Andrew McCornick with vice presidents Charlie Adam and Martin Kennedy.Vice president Martin Kennedy; president Andrew McCornick and vice president Charlie Adam will lead NFU Scotland in 2020.Sitting vice president Martin Kennedy, the only position open to election this year, is to ...
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NewsGlobal poultry outlook 2020
The outlook for global poultry in 2020 is slightly more positive than it was in 2019, when markets suffered from relative oversupply, according to Rabobank’s latest Poultry Quarterly titled ‘Outlook 2020: Can Oversupplied Global Markets Be Saved by Rising, but Volatile Asian Trade?’A key driver of the gradual recovery will ...
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NewsMeat Management invests in compostable wrapping
Meat Management is to be the first in its field to introduce compostable wrapping for its print issues from January 2020.Editor Pam Brook said: "I'm delighted that from January Meat Management, and its sister magazine, Food Management Today, will be delivered to its audience in bio-degrable bags, which can be ...
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NewsCranswick acquires premium outdoor pig farming business
Cranswick plc has acquired Packington Pork Limited from the Mercer family.Packington Pork Limited comprises pig farming and rearing operations and specialises in the production of British free range and outdoor bred pigs. The business operates predominantly from a range of sites across Staffordshire, Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire.The transaction, said Cranswick, will ...
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NewsRecord broken for most pigs-in-blankets made in one minute
Graeme Carter, of Carmarthenshire-based Red Valley Farms, broke the Guiness World Records™ title for Most pigs-in-blankets made in one minute at Hybu Cig Cymru – Meat Promotion Wales’s (HCC) stand at the Royal Winter Fair.Graeme Carter, of Carmarthenshire-based Red Valley Farms.Surpassing André Ortolf’s record of making 17 in one minute, ...
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NewsSAMW says time for the facts to enter meat production debate
It’s time to bust the myths surrounding meat production and consumption with fact-based truth and a big dose of reality, a task for producers, processors and retailers that needs to be the top priority in 2020 if our industry is to have any sort of meaningful future, says the Scottish ...
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NewsUFAW has new chief executive
Following the retirement of Dr Robert Hubrecht at the end of 2019, The Universities Federation for Animal Welfare (UFAW) has appointed Dr Huw Golledge BSc PhD as the new chief executive of both UFAW and its sister charity, the Humane Slaughter Association (HSA).Dr Huw Golledge BSc PhD chief executive of ...
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NewsAHDB responds to 'Peak Meat' by 2030
AHDB’s market intelligence experts have hit back at the latest call to cut down meat consumption in response to climate change, branding its thinking ‘flawed’.A group of 50 scientists from around the world penned a letter to academic journal Lancet Planetary Health urging global nations to “declare a timeframe for ...
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NewsPrime lamb producers benefit from strengthening prices
Scottish prime lamb producers have seen strengthening farmgate prices since mid-October resulting in a producer price climb of 23% to around 194 p/kg liveweight, an increase of 7% on last year’s prices, according to the latest market analysis by Quality Meat Scotland (QMS).This strength in the Scottish market is also ...
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NewsNCB plans another charcuterie taster day in April 2020
National Craft Butchers (NCB) is planning to run another charcuterie taster day in April 2020.Barry Walker of Cured, Rich Summers, NCB's technical manager, Richard Stevenson and Primary Authority partner Paul Hobbs, will be on hand to answer charcuterie process questions from carcase to shelf.The event is open to all craft ...
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NewsRhug Estate PGI Welsh Organic Lamb first to be sold in Qatar
Rhug Estate has announced that PGI Welsh Lamb from its organic farm in north Wales is the first Welsh organic lamb to be available for customers to buy in Qatar, following Lord Newborough negotiating a trade deal which has taken two years to finalise.Rhug Lamb in Monoprix Qatar.Various cuts of ...
