Meat, Fish & Dairy Processing Industry News: United Kingdom
15 January 2015

WALES - The Welsh Deputy Minister for Farming and Food, Rebecca Evans, headed a trade mission to Norway last week promoting...
13 January 2015

UK – Farmers are criticising dairy processor First Milk over its communication of business restructuring, including deferral...

UK - Hogg prices have started the New Year more strongly than is typical for the start of January, according to Stuart Ashworth,...
12 January 2015

UK - Last week at the Oxford Farming Conference in the UK, environmental campaigner and author, George Monbiot, launched...

SCOTLAND - The EU referendum is the biggest threat facing British farming, Scotland’s Rural Affairs Secretary Richard Lochhead...

UK - A new certification mark for meat that comes from animals that only eat pasture and never any cereal feeds, was launched...
09 January 2015

ANALYSIS - Changing policies on pesticides, animal feeds and welfare are threatening to reduce wheat crops in the UK and...
08 January 2015

UK - The UK has called for a rethink on the three crop rule, which is part of the greening arrangement within the recent...

UK - Britain has the land, technology and entrepreneurial flair to lead the world in food and farming, Environment Secretary...

UK - The Oxford Farming Conference is to fund three students to attend Agritechnica in Hanover, Germany, as part of a joint...

UK - Prospects for the beef and lamb, pig and poultry and dairy sectors will come under the spotlight at the 2015 Agriculture...

UK - Farmers need smarter use of fertiliser and smarter feeding and breeding of ruminant animals in their bid to mitigate...

UK - A greenhouse gas calculator developed at Aberdeen University is this year’s winner of the Practice with Science Award...
07 January 2015

UK - The British government is calling on the European Commission to introduce country of origin labelling on milk and dairy...

UK - Increased productivity in British agriculture is directly related to research and development and to raise productivity...

UK - Jane King has been appointed as the new Chief Executive of the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB)....
06 January 2015

NORTHERN IRELAND, UK - Agriculture Minister Michelle O’Neill has set out priorities for 2015, noting that it will be a...
05 January 2015

UK - Former NFU President Peter Kendall has received a Knighthood in the New Year’s Honours issued last week....
02 January 2015

UK - A new bid has been launched to protect the name of 'London Cure Smoked Scottish Salmon' as worldwide sales of Scottish...
31 December 2014

UK - The British government needs to embrace farmers and growers’ optimism for the longer term future to help grow the...