Latest Industry News – Page 288
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NewsCubs visit KQF factory
British halal food manufacturer KQF recently played host to 30 members of the Blackburn-based Abu Hanifah Foundation Cub Scouts Group.Children try their hand at sausage making in KQF's manufacturing facility. "It was a pleasure to welcome the cubs to our factory," said managing director, Faruk Vali.The cubs were welcomed by ...
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QMS “Sharing Best Practice” conference date announced
Livestock farmers who are interested in hearing the latest on a range of initiatives aimed at improving efficiency and reducing costs are invited to register for Quality Meat Scotland’s industry development conference early next year.QMS’s “Sharing Best Practice: Inform, Inspire, Innovate” event is free to attend and takes place on ...
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Highly virulent Asian-American pig disease has spread to Europe
Highly virulent Asian-American Porcine Epidemic Diarrhoea virus has spread to Europe. The disease is extremely infectious — a thimbleful of manure from an infected pig unit is sufficient to infect the entire British pig population.It is impossible to guarantee Asian-American PEDv will not arrive in Britain on a traveller’s shoes ...
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NewsCarol Smillie and QMS help kitchen team at Rachel House
Scottish TV personality Carol Smillie this week joined staff and volunteers to help prepare a festive meal for families at Rachel House in Kinross, one of two centres run by the Children’s Hospice Association Scotland (CHAS).Ms Smillie was one of a host of Scottish celebrities who provided recipes for a ...
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Drop in NZ lamb exports expected during 2015
The quantity of New Zealand lamb available for export in 2015 is expected to be down - even though the number of lambs has increased over the last 12 months.This could be good news for Welsh sheep producers, according to Hybu Cig Cymru – Meat Promotion Wales (HCC).“The overall decline ...
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NewsBoys v girls for Premier Young Butcher competition at Meatup
In the wake of the success from last year’s competition when Walter Smith’s Chris Riley became Premier Young Butcher 2014 appetites have been wetted with applications coming in from girls as well as boys looking to take the Premier Young Butcher 2015 crown at Meatup in 2015!Lishman’s Joe Smith is ...
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NewsMonitoring report highlights effective industry cooperation
An action plan designed to secure a viable long term future for the Welsh red meat industry is continuing to hit its targets.Dai Davies: "it is important that we do not relax."The annual monitoring report of the Strategic Action Plan for the Welsh Red Meat Industry has concluded that Hybu ...
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NewsInternational quality rating for Harper Adams University research
It has been announced that all research conducted by Harper Adams University is of international quality and that more than 50 per cent is either world leading or internationally excellent.The news comes as results of the new system for assessing the quality of research in UK higher education institutions have ...
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NewsKeelham Farm Shop serves up supreme champion Christmas beef
Supreme championship-winning prime beef cuts are going on sale at an award-winning West Yorkshire farm shop for its customers Christmas tables.Keelham Farm Shop in Thornton, Bradford, bought the title-winning Limousin-cross bullock shown by the Fawcett farming family, from Sand Hutton, near York, at Skipton Auction Mart’s prestigious Christmas primestock show ...
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Scholarship success continues
The pig scholarship scheme facilitated by BPEX in conjunction with Harper Adams University is reported to be going from strength to strength.In total 47 student applications were received, involving 10 companies, across the whole scholarship scheme, compared with 35 last year.BPEX skills development co-ordinator Sam Bowsher said: “The firms involved ...
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‘Shelf life savviness’ will aid deli meat waste reduction
Sophisticated shelf life strategies could help accelerate industry-wide efforts to reduce unnecessary food waste, according to Leatherhead Food Research.A report produced by WRAP (Waste Resources & Action Programme) suggests that UK households waste around 19% of the food they bring into the home. Some of this wastage could be avoided ...
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News2 Sisters appoints Ian Toal in new role
2 Sisters Food Group has appointed food industry heavyweight Ian Toal to the newly created role of Divisional Managing Director.Toal will head up the company’s Added Value Poultry, Chilled, Food To Go, Meal Solutions and Ready to Cook divisions. He will report directly to CEO Ranjit Singh.Toal brings a wealth ...
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Avian flu looks to shake up 2015 according to Rabobank Poultry Quarterly Report
Global issues such as avian flu and trade restrictions remain on the horizon for 2015 and will have a big impact on global poultry trade according to Rabobank in a recent report. It says regions affected by avian flu outbreaks, like the EU and Canada, will suffer from lost export ...
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Christmas closedown at Meat Management
The Meat Management offices will close from 5.30pm on Monday 22nd December, and reopen again for business on Monday 5th January 2015.We would like to take this opportunity to wish all of our readers and advertisers a very happy Christmas and here’s to a successful 2015!This story was originally published ...
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Catering butcher smashes its Christmas orders records
Yorkshire Dales Meat Company - the catering butcher supplying professional kitchens and supermarkets across the North of England - has smashed all previous records for Christmas orders, with a 30% increase in comparison with 2013.Yorkshire Dales Meat Company (YDMC) prides itself on supplying high quality meat sourced as locally to ...
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NewsTeam approach at Dawn Farms wins award
Dawn Farms, Simply Soups and Culinary Food Group have won the prestigious Industry Category Award at the Sustainable Energy Ireland Awards 2014.From left: Dr. Brian Motherway, CEO Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland, Alex White, Minister for Communications in the Irish Government, Barry Brophy and Pat Goff from Simply Soups, Jim ...
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NewsNFU concerns over significant rise in abattoir waste charges
NFU members are expressing concern that abattoir waste charges have risen by more than 60 per cent in recent weeks.The NFU is now calling on those processors that have increased their charges to fully explain the reasons behind this.Charles Sercombe: “The picture is not consistent with the majority of processors ...
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Suffolk producer joins BPEX Board
Suffolk pig producer Simon Watchorn has been appointed by The Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) to be a member of the BPEX board.He runs a 600-sow outdoor breed-to-finish unit and has been involved in the industry for the last 20 years. Simon, who starts on January 1st, is also ...
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NewsTight global supply of beef set to underpin producer prices
Global beef supplies are projected to remain tight over the next 12 months which will help to underpin producer prices, according to Stuart Ashworth, Head of Economics Services with Quality Meat Scotland (QMS).QMS's Stuart Ashworth: "“Piecing together all this information, then, we can conclude that at local and European level ...
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Download EBLEX’s Christmas Meat Order Form today!
EBLEX has developed a handy Christmas Meat Order Form template for butchers to use in the run-up to the big day – helping them to stay on top of festive orders.The easy-to-use Excel spreadsheet can be downloaded and saved, then updated with customer’s orders and printed off.The order form features ...
