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Red meat sector contributes £2.1 billion to Scottish economy
Quality Meat Scotland’s Scottish Red Meat Industry Profile report released today shows the sector makes a record-breaking £2.1 billion contribution to Scotland’s national economic output.However, as QMS’s Stuart Ashworth, Head of Economic Services cautioned: “Tight supplies globally led to strong livestock prices during 2011 and this generated increased confidence in ...
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Retailers and caterers promise to sell only 'legal' pork
Britain’s major food organisations have pledged to Government that they will not sell pork and pork products from illegal pig farms when the European partial stalls ban is introduced on January 1, 2013.The National Pig Association has welcomed the news, which follows months of campaigning by the British pig industry ...
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NewsFirst time entrant crowned BPEX national champion
A combination of pork fillet and pastry in its ‘Pork Wellington’ has earned Archers Butchers the prestigious ‘National Champion’ title at the 2011-2012 BPEX regional roadshow and product excellence final. It was the first time the Norwich-based butchers had entered the competition.The speciality product triumphed in the first leg of ...
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Pork report calls for supermarkets to examine business models
A Manchester University study of pork production and consumption has made some hard hitting policy recommendations to help the UK pig industry.Bringing Home the Bacon asks why the UK domestic herd has halved in size and the UK has become, what the authors of the report see as increasingly dependent ...
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Eight pork processors to produce dead weight average pig price
The BPEX board has, after some discussion, agreed that the dead weight average pig price (DAPP) will be expanded to cover a broader range of the pig market. As a result information from 15 sites covered by 8 pork processors will produce the DAPP.They processors are H.G. Blake, Cheale Meats ...
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Export opportunities to Africa under EBLEX spotlight
The 8th EBLEX Export Conference will focus on the prospects for beef and lamb in Africa.The free event is on 26th June at The Arthur Rank Centre in Stoneleigh Park, Wariwckshire. EBLEX's export manager, Jean-Pierre Garnier, said: "Export activity plays a key part in EBLEX’s work and our conference will ...
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IMS report indicates pig industry is leading the way environmentally
The International Meat Secretariat (IMS) has just published the report, Pigs and the Environment, which examines the whole issue of environmental impact and indicates that the global pig industry has a major contribution to make.The report takes, for its starting point, the statement from the FAO in Livestock’s Long Shadow ...
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NFU Scotland calls for supermarkets to support Scotch lamb
On the eve of Scotsheep 2012 NFU Scotland President, Nigel Miller, visited a number of supermarket stores in Edinburgh and the Borders to look at the availability and display of lamb. As a result NFU Scotland has called on major supermarkets to up their support for the product in the ...
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France's top poultry producer and processor Doux calls in administrators
French group, Doux, said to be the world’s fifth-largest poultry producer, has gone into administration, unable to agree a deal with creditors. The business employs 10,000 people worldwide of which 3,400 are in France.“A court-appointed administrator will assist the company’s management to finalize a plan on continuing operations in France ...
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NewsNew summer promotional kit for pork
As Jubilee and Olympic Games fever sweeps the nation, friends and families may well be looking to celebrate with parties and events, so the next few weeks could be a particularly lucrative time for the meat industry, say BPEX, the promotional body for pork promotion in the UK.From sausages, pork ...
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Full details published on BPEX work
Full details of work to improve pig production during the past year has been published in the BPEX Annual Technical Report 2011-2012. The report is an in-depth look at BPEX knowledge transfer and research and development activities which are designed to help producers improve physical pig performance, herd health and ...
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Greater understanding needed in the beef supply chain
Guaranteeing supplies of beef amid a global shortening of product requires everyone in the supply chain to fully understand the current market condition, according to EBLEX.EBLEX chairman John Cross sounded the warning as the organisation launched a new state-of-the-industry report called Balancing the Market, highlighting the changes that have taken ...
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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 ...
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Debate needed on who bears cost of supermarket promos
Shrinking global supplies of beef and lamb and a rising population will push up prices for producers and processors in England – but it won't all be plain sailing. That was the forecast from EBLEX sector director Nick Allen as he closed the organisation's first northern conference in Wetherby.He followed ...
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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 ...
