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Meat Industry Awards reward excellence
The 2012 Meat Management Industry Awards ceremony was once again heralded as a resounding success following the presentation on the evening of 24th May, when almost 350 guests came together to celebrate the winning companies, products and organisations.The results for all sixteen award categories were announced at a glittering awards ...
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Processors and retailers asked to take a long term view
NFU livestock board chairman, Charles Sercombe, has made a plea to retailers and processors to avoid sending negative signals to farmers and ensure a stabilisation of farmgate prices.Sercombe said: “The boom bust cycle of pricing is not in the interests of the farmer, processor or retailer.” He warned that whilst ...
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Determining meat eating quality using technology approaching commercial reality
The ground-breaking £1 million Integrated Measurement of Eating Quality (IMEQ) research project to determine the eating quality of meat is moving closer to commercial reality with the successful testing of a robot at a Scottish meat processing premises.Quality Meat Scotland and the Scottish Government are the co-funders of the IMEQ ...
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Bone-in beef from the UK can now go to Hong Kong
Beef rib cuts and other specified bone-in products, except vertebral column cuts, from cattle less than 30 months old can now be exported to Hong Kong. Boneless beef from cattle of all ages is already exported there. The revival has been secured by EBLEX.Whilst the agreement was reached in principle ...
