All Meat articles – Page 200

  • News

    SHEEPMEAT

    2001-11-03T00:00:00Z

    Prices rising in the past couple of weeks; reduced commercial kill masks problems Restricted supply to leave legacy of severe shortage Prices have been rising in the home produced lamb market in the past couple of weeks, and some livestock...

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    SHEEPMEAT

    2001-11-03T00:00:00Z

    Consumer response to regional marketing more enthusiastic than anticipated Safeway backing British farmers with lamb drive Safeway's latest promotion for Welsh lamb backs up wholesaler suggestions that supermarkets are taking home-killed meat more...

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    Reduced purchase volumes not being offset by increases in ex

    2001-11-03T00:00:00Z

    What is wrong with retail pork market? Foot and mouth disease is merely the latest in a series of traumas for the pig industry. Swine fever, the BSE scare on the continent, breeding herd contraction in this country due to financial pressure on...

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    BACON

    2001-11-03T00:00:00Z

    Middles from over Dutch half kill needed for rashers Dutch volumes match 1998's Dutch bacon shipments are set to match last year's 110,000 tonne record, according to Dutch Meat Board (UK) md Robert Smith. Shipping an estimated 45% of back bacon...

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    BACON

    2001-11-03T00:00:00Z

    The volumes and value of the retail bacon market have continued to decline gently despite another year of generous volume promotions. And without so much as a chink of light at the end of the tunnel for British pig producers, everyone is looking...

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    Available data on lamb purchases and spending do not yet sho

    2001-11-03T00:00:00Z

    A possible source of reassurance is the EU Scientific Steering Committee. These scientists have declared the risk of BSE infection in sheep small, with no proof found so far of the disease being present in small ruminants under field conditions,...

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    Manufacturers urged to sign up as sausages get the Quality m

    2001-10-27T00:00:00Z

    British Meat is set to extend its Quality Standard Mark for pork, bacon and ham to include sausages. The move, which starts on Monday (October 29) to coincide with British Sausage Appreciation Week, is being introduced to bolster consumer...

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    beef: exports

    2001-10-27T00:00:00Z

    MLC keeps up pressure Beef exporting is a sensitive issue among retailers, many of whom resent producers' and processors' determination to find alternative customers abroad. So controversy seems likely when it becomes widely known DEFRA and...

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    DAIRY

    2001-10-20T00:00:00Z

    Milk Group/Zenith merged operation will have boosted borrowing power New co-op looking to beef up presence in processing sector The main short-term aim of the plans to create a major new milk co-operative through the merger of Northern co-op...

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    Platform for the Brits to flag up resumption of pigmeat expo

    2001-10-20T00:00:00Z

    The partial lifting of the ban on British pork exports meant the meat industry had something to celebrate at Anuga for the first time in years. Better still, the first export order was signed at the show as part of a stunt that provided a welcome...

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    Food manufacturers can source a whole range of beef and poul

    2001-10-20T00:00:00Z

    Marks and Spencer is to sell its 18 French stores to department stores group Galeries Lafayette for an undisclosed sum. M&S is "still in consultation" over remaining stores in the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and Luxembourg. The four Belgian stores...

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    SHEEPMEAT: anuga

    2001-10-20T00:00:00Z

    Unrealistic expectations by farmers could cause new market collapse Foot and mouth still shadows sheepmeat Prices and supplies of home killed lamb are likely to remain distorted by the export ban due to foot and mouth well into next year, the...

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    anuga: pigmeat

    2001-10-20T00:00:00Z

    MLC confident of strong demand for British pork on the continent Prices may ease despite resumption of exports Buyers of pork in the UK will almost certainly have to pay higher prices as a consequence of exports resuming next week. However any...

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    Heinz is continuing to count the calories by adding six new

    2001-10-20T00:00:00Z

    Burton's Foods is revitalising its £8m Viscount biscuit brand with the launch of a new special edition, Viscount Dark. Danish gammon is to get a push in the run up to Christmas. The Danish Bacon & Meat Council plans to provide promotional...

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    lamb

    2001-10-13T00:00:00Z

    New Zealanders sell more to UK than they had feared Latest hint of surprisingly strong demand for lamb in the UK is a sharp recovery in supplies from New Zealand. Shipments in January and February were about 17% heavier than a year earlier, at more...

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    lamb

    2001-10-13T00:00:00Z

    Trade reels as ABP axes Bathgate plant Irish-owned Anglo Beef Processors, the UK's biggest livestock slaughterer, offers the clearest evidence so far of financial stress in the sheep processing sector. The company is to close its dedicated lamb...

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    lamb

    2001-10-13T00:00:00Z

    Strain could lead to burst of rationalisation and consolidation Wet summer leads to tightening NZ supply Abnormally tight supplies of imported lamb and mutton are confusing the sheepmeat market. Traders caught off guard by the relative scarcity...

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    lamb

    2001-10-13T00:00:00Z

    NZ Meat Board confident of fundamental change in world sheepmeat New Zealand expects prices to strengthen Cheaper imported lamb at first seemed one likely consequence of international trade disruption due to the terrorism crisis. But New...

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    lamb

    2001-10-13T00:00:00Z

    UK lamb not boosted by less aggressive NZ prices Suppliers of imported lamb appear to have traded for margin rather than market share in the last few weeks, leaving the home industry to chase volume sales with the help of deep discounts and MLC's...

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    LAMB

    2001-10-13T00:00:00Z

    Saines' loss is a blow to the trade Unease in the imported lamb trade is exacerbated by the loss of experienced players through the retirement of Owen Ferris and the return to New Zealand of Ken Rouse and Laurie Bryant. An even harsher shock is...