Retailers edging towards next food scandal
NPA has noted a number of pork, bacon and gammon lines being switched back to imported product, because it is marginally cheaper. It is not naming the retailers concerned until it has had meetings with them to find out their reasons for retreating from their post-Horsegate promises to introduce short supply chains. Since the heat […]
Back British Farming to put more British food on more British plates
Starkly, our current self-sufficiency rate means that today, August 14, is the day when British food supplies would run out if all the food produced in Britain in a year was stored and eaten from January 1. The NFU is determined to reverse this trend and is launching a Charter looking for the public, politicians […]
A cluster of stars for Godminster
Seen as the equivalent of chefs gaining a Michelin star, Great Taste is the UK’s largest and most rigorous food awards scheme involving over 400 judges and thousands of hours of blind tasting. Godminster’s Organic Vintage Oak Smoked Cheddar has been awarded 1-star, the cheese, which is made to a 70-year old recipe, was commended […]
National Centre for Universities and Business announce launch of Food Economy Task Force
Following the publication of the BIS-Defra-DfID UK Strategy for Agricultural Technologies on Monday 22nd July 2013, the National Centre for Universities and Business (NCUB) has today launched a major Task Force to find ways of boosting the UK’s food economy through world-class collaboration between businesses, universities and government. The Task Force will be co-chaired by […]
The Greener Revolution – New technology to lessen dependence on fertilisers and cut farming costs
This patented technology enables all crops to take up nitrogen from the atmosphere rather than from expensive and potentially environmentally damaging nitrogen based fertilisers. The benefits are potentially massive: less reliance on nitrogen fertilisers; reduced nitrogen pollution of the environment from the use of nitrogen based fertilisers; and reduced fertiliser costs […]
Major global analysis offers hope for saving the wild side of staple food crops
The analysis assesses 29* of the world’s most important food crops and reveals severe threats to just over half of their wild relatives as they are not adequately saved in genebanks and not available to researchers and plant breeders for crop improvement. Climate change is predicted to cause the substantial decline of agricultural production in […]
FUW slams Tesco beef labelling plans
According to media reports, beef from cattle imported from Ireland for fattening in the UK could be labelled “Irish-born, British-finished” in order to circumvent current labelling rules and allow a country flag to be placed on the label. “Apart from undermining UK farmers and the UK market in general, the plans would simply add to […]
Young Co-operative farmers meet Ministers to help tackle youth unemployment
Michael Simmons, who works at The Co-operative Farms’ Highland Court estate, near Canterbury, and Colin Schenk and Kamil Peno, from The Co-operative’s fruit farm in Tillington, Hereford, joined Nick Folland, The Co-operative’s Group Director, External Affairs; Richard Quinn, Head of The Co-operative Farms, along with other retail industry delegates who attended the event in Westminster […]
Work with local farmers wins East of England Co-op a national award
The East of England Co-operative Society has been recognised for its commitment to supporting the regional economy by being awarded a ‘Business in the Community’ award at a ceremony attended by the Prime Minister David Cameron on Tuesday 5th July. Having already secured the regional Dairy Crest Rural Action Award in the 2013 Responsible Business […]
