Meat, Fish & Dairy Processing Industry News: United Kingdom
20 March 2015

UK - Midland Pig Producers has withdrawn its current Planning Application for a pig farm, with associated biogas plant, at...
19 March 2015

UK - UK Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne has announced an allowance to farmers to spread their incomes over five...

ANALYSIS - Restraining lambs individually in a V-shaped restrainer for non-stun religious slaughter is more stressful for...

UK - Ahead of the general election in May, political parties have committed government support to the poultry industry....

UK - Boparan Holdings Limited, the parent company for 2 Sisters Food Group, has reported a challenging trading period made...
18 March 2015

SCOTLAND, UK - The results of the latest December Agricultural Survey show that livestock numbers have generally increased...

UK - The week ending 7 March recorded another reduction in the EU spec GB SPP, of 0.48p on the week to 132.73p per kg....
17 March 2015

UK - A new free seminar programme is set for the 2015 Meatup, which for the first time co-locates with the Food Science &...

UK - Farmer owned dairy business First Milk has appointed Mike Gallacher as its new chief executive....

UK, SCOTLAND - Animal welfare has come to the fore in Scotland with the release of a document designed to "articulate and...

NORTHERN IRELAND - Hoggets were making higher prices last week than the prior week, according to market analysts at the Livestock...
13 March 2015

UK - An innovative digital health and safety communication campaign, introduced by 2 Sisters, has received industry recognition....

UK - The confidence of the UK poultry industry has been knocked by a decline in exports, according to a new survey from the...
12 March 2015

UK - The Welsh red meat industry should aim to increase sales by at least 34 per cent to £776 million a year by 2020....

UK – Northern Irish Dunbia Deputy Group Chief Executive, Tony O’Neill has been reappointed as Chair of the Agri-Food...
06 March 2015

UK - Lincolnshire pig farmer Meryl Ward has been chosen as an AHDB board member and chairman of BPEX to take over from Stewart...

UK - UK poultry and food processing company Moy Park has been named Product Developer of the Year at the prestigious Meat...
05 March 2015

UK - If product life across a range of foods was increased by a day it could prevent around 250,000 tonnes of food waste...

UK - Opportunities and challenges facing the Halal sector will this month come under the spotlight at an event in Warwickshire....

UK - Tulip has scooped the award for Processing Business of the Year at the Meat and Poultry Processing Awards 2015....