All Meat articles – Page 175
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Tesco chicken sales unruffled by bird flu demo
If the poultry sector was looking for more evidence that the public isn't put off chicken by bird flu outbreaks, it was to be found at a Tesco Metro in Norwich last week. The store - in the same county as two farms where the low...
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Supplier Spotlight: Debbie & Andrew's
Naming their range of sausages after themselves proved to be the turning point in Debbie and Andrew Keeble's business lives. Six years ago, the farming couple decided to diversify from farming pigs,...
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Beef exporters look wider afield
The British beef sector celebrated the resumption of normal exports to Europe on Wednesday - and immediately turned its attention to countries outside the EU that have yet to lift their ban. There are around 80 countries where the...
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Mistrust of halal meat
Meat bosses have refuted accusations they are not doing enough to promote domestically produced halal produce. Naved Syed of the UK Halal Corporation, an accreditation body that says it is campaigning for higher standards, said...
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Talking Point: Retailers are key to defending the high ground in welfare
Agricultural trade talks only seem to get media attention when they bring demonstrators out on to the streets. However these negotiations are crucially important, and...
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Buyers warned: the party is over..
Retail meat buyers have been warned that "the party is over" in terms of rock bottom prices for British beef when normal exports to Europe resume on Wednesday. Demand on the Continent for cow beef and meat from young bulls would...
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Commodities Update: strawberries, corned beef, salmon
Shortage of canned strawberries...bureaucratic chaos disrupts corned beef...icicle seafoods acquires kodiak salmon packers...With only three Spanish canners packing strawberries this season, there is growing concern over...
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..as Lord Bach reviews cash backing exports
Sustainable farming and food minister Lord Bach has called a second beef summit for next Wednesday to coincide with the resumption of normal exports of British beef to Europe. At the first summit last October, Lord Bach announced...
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Consumers relax over avian flu
Consumers are less concerned about the risks to human health posed by avian flu than they were before a dead bird infected with the H5N1 strain of the virus was discovered in Scotland, new findings indicate. A national survey of...
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Multiples to pay more for pork
Top retailers look poised to increase the amount they pay for fresh pork. Senior pig industry officials said that weeks of pressure from farmers in the form of direct action and hard-talking had begun to pay off. They claimed...
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Waitrose line-caught move for cod, haddock
Waitrose has become the first supermarket to ensure all its fresh and smoked cod and haddock is line-caught - and plans to increase its range of line-caught fish later in the year. Line catching uses baited hooks instead of trawled nets. By...
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French lagging on return of UK beef
France is unlikely to be in a position to accept British beef when the ban on normal exports ends next month.Defra has confirmed that beef exports from the UK to other EU countries are expected to begin on May 3. However, experts...
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Tesco talks beef with 'friends'
Tesco has held crisis talks with beef farmers and processors about how it will secure future stocks of beef.The retailer convened a meeting of leading suppliers last week to discuss supply arrangements for beef against a backdrop...
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Shortfall in salmon
Problems in the salmon industry are likely to create a shortfall in supplies of farmed salmon over Easter, Young's has warned. Colder than normal water in Scandinavia and Scotland has slowed the growth of farmed salmon, which means...
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Meals are ready for the tractor
Ready meals are set to carry the red tractor logo after Assured Food Standards, which licenses the mark, changed the criteria controlling its use. New rules will allow retailers and their suppliers to use the red tractor logo on...
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Consumer Insight: Key trends in consumption of pork pies in home and lunchbox
Pork pies were consumed on 225 million occasions last year, 1% fewer than during the year before. Two thirds of pork pies are consumed by over-45s. Enjoyment...
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Commodities Update
Florida orange juice concentrate hitting a high... importers warn of higher tomato prices... trident to acquire ocean beauty. Dry weather and disease in Florida have pushed orange juice concentrate futures to their...
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Barramundi for Waitrose
The first stocks sourced from a British barramundi fish farm arrive on Waitrose shelves on Monday (April 10). Aquabella Group, the company behind the New Forest Barramundi brand, says consumers will take to its delicate taste and...
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Bacon's ups and downs
Puzzled pig bosses are investigating a bizarre conflict between figures from the same source measuring exports and imports of Danish bacon. Figures from trade data agency GTIS indicate that exports of bacon from Denmark destined...
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NFU eyeing avian flu compensation
Poultry leaders are to call on the government to pay farmers compensation for losses incurred as a result of outbreaks of avian flu abroad. Defra is due to host a meeting on Tuesday with representatives from industry bodies in a...