PIG producers are set to descend on Tesco’s AGM tomorrow (Friday, July 1) in protest at the low prices they claim are killing off the industry.
Around 100 producers plan to leaflet investors at the East Midlands Conference Centre in Nottingham on Friday (July 1) calling on Britain’s biggest retailer to follow the likes of Waitrose, Morrisons and McDonalds in supporting producers.
The action...
Farming Minister, Jim Paice, has insisted that maintaining the current policy is unacceptable, just days ahead of an expected announcement on a badger cull in England.
Speaking in the House of Commons Mr Paice said that if no new measures are put in place to improve bTB control, the disease could cost the taxpayer £1 billion over the next decade.
It understood that the Cabinet, which contains doubters on the...
DEFRA has announced that British salad growers will be able to access EU aid provided in resopnse to the e coli crisis but will only have until the end of this month to apply for money from the 210 m Euro scheme.
The scheme is open to growers of tomatoes, lettuce, endives, cucumbers, sweet peppers and courgettes across the EU.
To receive the aid, which will represent approximately 50 per cent of market value, growers will have...
According to the Farmers Weekly, the British Free Range Egg Producers' Association has warned of the possibility of widespread business collapse, as the differential between retail and wholesale prices widens.
"Free-range egg producers are facing a desperate situation," said John Retson, chairman of the British Free Range Egg Producers Association. "Egg producers have seen the price they receive cut by 5p a dozen. At the same time,...
John Griffiths, newly appointed environment minister for Wales, announced on Tuesday that proposals for a pilot badger cull in north Pembrokeshire would be put on hold. His announcement comes after figures released earlier this year by the Welsh Government showed that the number of cattle infected with bovine TB had fallen dramatically in Wales, with nearly one-third fewer cattle slaughtered in the past year.
The...
The organic milk group, Calon Wen, is calling for more farmers to join as its order book grows.
The Welsh co-operative, which was set up in 2000, is run by farmers for farmers and is made up of over 20 family farms. Calon Wen has enjoyed strong growth for both its liquid sales through processors including Rachel's in Aberystwyth and cheese maker Caws Cenarth, as well as its own products sold throughout the UK.
“Despite the tough...
According to the Country Land and Business Association (CLA), the recent rainfall is not enough to revive drought-hit cereal crops and that sustained rainfall was needed to ensure cereal crops survive.
CLA East Midlands Director, Andrew Shirley, said that it would take more than a few showers to ensure grain crops are brought to healthy levels. A drought could mean failed crops and higher food prices, he said.
...According to Property Talk Live rents in Central London are on track to increase by 8 - 10% this year, putting even greater pressure on the finances of tenants in the capital (source: Cluttons' Residentail Property Forecasts June 2011).
According to Cluttons the significant pressure the increase will put on households, who are facing depleting incomes and job insecurity, means that it is unlikely that demand for rental property will be...
MEPs have insisted that British salad growers should be eligible for compensation in the wake of the e. coli crisis that has hit sales across Europe. Labout MEP Richard Howiett said there was no evidence of any health risk from salad goods grown in Britain.
He said that local growers risk losing out twice because of a dent in consumer confidence and the risk of markets being flooded with unsold salad goods from abroad. He...
WITHIN four days of Morrisons announcing its traditional beef scheme last week (see our blog entry dated 26th May), which majors on Beef Shorthorn, more than 100 beef farmers had contacted the supermarket’s meat processing subsidiary Woodheads for scheme approval details.
“We could not have hoped for a better initial response,” said farm operations manager Andrew Loftus .
“What we expect...
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