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NewsThe search for Britain’s next best young butcher starts here…
Butchery apprentices from across the UK are being invited to take part in the 2016 Premier Young Butcher Competition at Foodex next April at the NEC.This year's Premier Young Butcher Competition winner Lucy Crawshaw with NFMFT president Jim Sperring (left) and chief judge from the Institute of Meat, Keith Fisher ...
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NewsTesco to stop selling mixed origin lamb packs
A meeting between the UK’s farming unions and representatives from Tesco has resulted in the retailer confirming that, by the end of February 2016, it will no longer sell lamb products in mixed origin packs.The NFU, NFU Scotland, NFU Cymru, and Ulster Farmers’ Union met with representatives from Tesco and ...
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NewsHCC’s supermarket roadshow continues to stimulate support for Welsh Lamb
Hybu Cig Cymru – Meat Promotion Wales’ (HCC’s) consumer-focused supermarket roadshow visited Carmarthen recently as part of the organisation’s ongoing marketing campaign to back Welsh Lamb.Shoppers were joined by industry representatives including HCC chairman, Dai Davies and members of NFU Cymru and Farmers’ Union of Wales at Tesco Carmarthen to ...
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NewsFierce competition to find the Game to Eat Student Chef of the Year
The hotly contested title of Game to Eat Student Chef of the Year 2015 has been won by Jack Gates, from North Hertfordshire College.Jack Gates with judges Lee Maycock (left), Iwona Czerniak and Cyrus Todiwala (right).Jack wowed the judges with his whole roasted partridge accompanied by beetroot three ways, a ...
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??Quality assurance captured in new video from QMS
Quality Meat Scotland (QMS) has produced a new video highlighting the priority given to animal welfare in the production of quality assured livestock in Scotland.The video, which has been viewed on social media almost 30,000 times already, features Scottish farmers, butchers and chefs.Jim McLaren, chairman of QMS, said: “It is ...
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NewsAn encounter of the Royal kind for AHDB Pork
Sam Bowsher from AHDB Pork had an encounter of the royal kind when she met Princess Anne.Sam Bowsher meets HRH The Princess Royal.Sam, skills development co-ordinator, was at an event in London celebrating the companies and organisations which had made a contribution to the scholarships at Harper Adams University where ...
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NewsMeat industry reaction to IARC report on red and processed meat
This week's report from the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has drawn alarmist headlines in the national media but has been met with a balanced response from those in industry. Chris Godfrey, Godfrey’s Butchers, London: “They’re not saying that meat’s bad for you. What they’re saying is that ...
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NewsAHDB Beef and Lamb urges chefs to #TryTheLamb
A new digital engagement campaign from AHDB Beef and Lamb will showcase Quality Standard Mark (QSM) lamb to foodservice operators across the country.Hugh Judd: “Social media is big news for the foodservice sector at the moment.”The campaign aims to build a digital community of foodservice operators, providing them with inspiration ...
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NewsCurry king Baron Gulam Noon dies, aged 79
Businessman and enterpreneur, Baron Gulam Noon, has passed away at the age of 79. Noon built a huge business, manufacturing curries for the major supermarkets.Noon founded Noon Products in 1988, employing 11 people. By 2002 he had a workforce of 800 and in 2006 his high-tech plant was processing 80 ...
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NewsNFU president to discuss beef and lamb exports with US officials
The NFU is meeting with senior US officials in America this week to talk about the potential resumption of beef and lamb exports to the country.Raymond: "Progress, especially on lamb has been slow."NFU president Meurig Raymond is leading the UK delegation to Washington to meet with, among others, the EU ...
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NewsMusical touch for new Welsh Beef TV commercial
Hybu Cig Cymru – Meat Promotion Wales’ (HCC) new Welsh Beef TV commercial, which features the hymn Bread of Heaven recorded by west Wales’ Ospreys Supporters’ Choir, is now airing for four weeks across commercial TV channel in Wales and on social media. The 30-second advert is part of HCC’s ...
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NewsMeat industry gets set to rebuff WHO’s ruling on meat carcinogens
The likelihood that some processed meat products may be classed as carcinogenic by the cancer research arm of the World Health Organisation has caused strong reaction in the global meat industry.Is the WHO seriously suggesting sausages are to be considered alongside tobacco smoke in terms of a health risk?“Red and ...
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NewsDunbia’s Jack Dobson wins Entrepreneur of the Year award
Jack Dobson, Dunbia’s co-founder and owner, has won the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2015 Award at a ceremony in Dublin recently. Dobson, who founded meat processing company Dunbia with his brother Jim in 1976, beat competition from entrepreneurs across a range of industries at the event, which ...
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NewsA Pork Farms treat for the New Zealand All Blacks
Pork Farms, one of the UK’s leading pork pie manufacturers has created a special layered version of their traditional pork pie for Rugby World Cup finalists, the New Zealand All Blacks.The special layered version of their traditional pork pie for Rugby World Cup finalists, the New Zealand All Blacks.After hearing ...
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Retailers urged to respond to demand and increase domestic lamb on shelves
NFU Scotland has called on major retailers to offer more Scottish and British lamb and follow suit of retailer Aldi, which is doubling its offering in the face of increasing consumer demand.NFUS Livestock Committee chairman Charlie Adam said: “We have thrown the gauntlet down to those retailers to boost lamb ...
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NewsScottish farmers and butchers to get behind auction marts
Members of NFU Scotland’s livestock committee will meet with Scottish butchers in four regional meetings next month to encourage greater sourcing of quality Scottish beef and lamb through the auction mart system.John Sleigh, NFU Scotland’s Livestock policy advisor.The SFMTA will represent Scottish butchers in the talks. The meetings will aim ...
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NewsShelf facings at Lidl now 100 per cent British pork
Discounter Lidl has joined the National Pig Association’s (NPA’s) ‘hundred percenters club’, by selling 100 per cent fresh British pork.NPA chief executive, Dr Zoe Davies: "It’s essential [retailers and foodservice] make a special effort to source British pork, sausages, bacon and ham over the difficult months ahead.”According to the latest ...
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NewsQMS launches Schools Meat Voucher Scheme for 2015
Quality Meat Scotland (QMS) has launched its Schools Meat Voucher Scheme for 2015 with judo Olympian Sarah Clark at Edinburgh butchers, Findlays of Portobello.Billy Hoy from Findlays of Portobello, judo Olympian Sarah Clark and QMS health and education executive Jenni Henderson launch the Schools Meat Voucher Scheme at Findlays of ...
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Laboratory-grown meat to be in commercial production within five years
Mosa Meat plans to develop laboratory-grown minced meat with a view to bringing it to the mass market within five years, according to a recent report by the BBC.Using stem cell technology researchers developed a prototype burger two years ago at a cost of £215,000.The commercial company, headed up by ...
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NewsUK lamb prices challenged by increase in supply and carcase weights
According to Quality Meat Scotland (QMS), the traditional increase in lambs on the market at this time of year, accompanied by a lift in carcase weights, is beginning to impact on lamb prices.Producer prices are running at around 140 p/kg lwt, approximately 10p/kg lwt (6-7%) below last year. The volume ...
