Sleep tight, eat cheese for tea tonight!
Cheese lovers can sleep easy tonight, as the British Cheese Board has unveiled the results of a study which debunks the age old myth popularised in A Christmas Carol*, that eating cheese before bed gives you nightmares. In fact, the results indicate that cheese may even give some people a more pleasant night’s sleep! The […]
Dairy key to athletes diet and nutrition say experts
Three time Olympian Goldie Sayers and HSBC Sevens World Series star Dan Norton were among the guest speakers of The Dairy Council’s Evening of Sport and Dairy in London. The evening featured a presentation from Professor Stuart M. Phillips from McMaster University, Canada, on the role of milk as a sports recovery product while Great […]
Supermarkets lead the way on calorie and sugar reduction
For well over a decade the UK’s supermarkets have led the way on efforts to reduce the amount of calories in their own brand ranges and to ensure that there is accessible and clear information available on the amount of sugar in food, particularly in ready meals, snacks and desserts. Supermarkets are still working hard […]
The Village dairy that’s become cream of the crop
It’s nearly thirty years since Gareth Roberts decided to start experimenting with new milk products on his Denbighshire farm. Diversification was not such a well used phrase at the time but that didn’t stop Gareth and Falmai, his wife, exploring the possibilities, and what is now a household brand name, Llaeth y Llan, was born. […]
Dawn Meats named a global sustainability winner by McDonald’s
Dawn Meats has been named a global sustainability award winner in the McDonald’s “2014 Best of Sustainable Supply” global report. Dawn was one of just 9 global category winners to be selected from more than 600 entries worldwide. Dawn Meats, which supplies beef products in 3 major markets to McDonald’s in Europe, was named Global […]
Harvesting success for children at Kids Country event
Over 400 local school children recently returned to the East of England Showground, for a dedicated Kids Country event, to harvest an abundance of potatoes and beetroot that they had planted earlier on in the year. Following from the successful crop planting day, that the showground hosted in March, the children aged from 7 to […]
The role robotics could play in future food production
A team of computer scientists from the University of Lincoln, UK, is co-organising an international workshop on recent advances in agricultural robotics. Academics from the Lincoln Centre for Autonomous Systems (L-CAS) will be attending the 13th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS-13) from 15th to 19th July, 2014. Recent results confirm that robots, machines […]
Cash crops enhance food security
Crops sold on markets (‘cash crops’) are an integral part of strategies to improve food security at farm household level in developing countries. By selling their surplus production, agricultural households generate income that improves access to food. Research by LEI Wageningen UR, commissioned by the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs, shows how farmers choose to […]
Peruvian pomegranate farm becomes first in Latin America to achieve Rainforest Alliance Certification
The Rainforest Alliance announces Peruvian pomegranate farm Fundo Teresita, owned by Agroinversiones Valle y Pampa Perú S.A., has earned Rainforest Alliance certification, becoming the first pomegranate producer in Latin America, and the second in the world, to meet the comprehensive standards of Sustainable Agriculture Network (SAN). To achieve certification, Fundo Teresita adopted practices that conserve […]
