http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk This is the RSS syndication feed for MeatTradeNewsDaily.co.uk. British Cattle Breeders’ Club Conference Brings Industry Together http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/080113/uk____british_cattle_breeders_club_conference.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Wed, 16 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT There is still a gap between pig cost of production in the UK and the EU, but it is narrowing. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/080113/uk____interpig_report___pig_producers_warned_mind_the_gap.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Wed, 16 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT Asda, the supermarket chain, has said that it remains "committed to sourcing lamb from Wales". http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/120113/uk___asda_committed_to_sourcing_lamb_from_wales.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Wed, 16 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT There is still a gap between pig cost of the production in the UK and the EU, but it is narrowing. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/020113/uk___bpex_news_release_latest_cost_of_production_report.aspx bpex.org Wed, 16 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT The British Pig Executive has launched its hunt for the ‘Foodservice Pork Product of the Year’, with catering suppliers, manufacturers and chefs producing speciality pork cuts, dishes and products being urged to enter. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/150113/uk___finding_the_best_pork_.aspx bpex.org Wed, 16 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT Northern Paper Board, a leading supplier to the meat trades sector, has been awarded top-rated ‘A’ grade certification for packaging and packaging materials through the British Retail Consortium’s Global Standards programme. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/180113/uk___global_standards_accolade_for_northern_paper_board.aspx newsroom - meattradenewsdaily.co.uk Wed, 16 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT With increasing pressure from Government to reduce salt and fat levels in products as well as economic pressures on costs, there has probably never been a time when innovative sandwich design has been more important. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/100113/uk___keeping_innovation_alive.aspx newsroom - meattradenewsdaily.co.uk Wed, 16 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT The long-term outlook for beef in the UK and worldwide is strong, according to ABP agricultural manager Stuart Roberts. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/140113/uk___long_term_beef_outlook_is_strong_asda_suppliers_told_.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Wed, 16 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT Britain's struggling supermarket chain Wm Morrison said a sales fall worsened over Christmas as bland promotions failed to lure customers also put off by its lack of an online presence and convenience stores. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/100113/uk___morrisons_losing_market_share_.aspx yahoo news Wed, 16 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT When you read last weeks headlines from the Murdoch news stable, you are convinced he is not "A fit or proper person to own or run a newspaper". http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/100113/uk___murdochs_staff_should_stick_to_phone_hacking_.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Wed, 16 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT Livestock identification specialist Nettex has launched a long lasting, fully scourable professional marker spray for UK sheep producers. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/030113/uk___nettex_makes_its_mark.aspx newsroom - meattradenewsdaily.co.uk Wed, 16 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT Chris Elvidge has been promoted to Systems Technician for PigTek Pig Equipment Group, according to Chris Long, sales manager for the CTB Inc. business unit. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/150113/uk___new_man_at_pigtek.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Wed, 16 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT It’s the start of a new year, so kick it off in style. After eating too much turkey over the festive period, beat off those January blues and try a tasty sandwich. Sandwiches are one of Britain’s favourite lunchtime snacks. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/030113/uk___re_kindle_your_love_for_the_sandwich.aspx newsroom - meattradenewsdaily.co.uk Wed, 16 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT The Marel GEBA SC 125 V dynamic packing line now has a powerful new ally: Innova software that monitors all key positions in the line, and enables you to control processing from your desk. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/030113/uk___the_marel_geba_sc__v_dynamic_packing_line.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Wed, 16 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT Following the announcement on the 13th December 2012 of an agreement for a management buy-out of its UK pork operations VION is pleased to announce that this deal has now been completed. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/090113/uk___vion_foods_the_lunatics_now_run_the_asylum_.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Wed, 16 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT CLA President Harry Cotterell today reflected on lobbying successes for farmers, land managers, rural businesses and property rights in 2012 and set out the CLA’s priorities for 2013. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/090113/uk___cla_sets_out_lobbying_priorities_for__.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Tue, 15 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT When a leg of lamb costs you half a days pay, the working man will buy somthing else. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/150113/uk___farmers_greed_killed_the_lamb_trade_.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Tue, 15 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT Lamb prices and forecasts for beef production will come under the spotlight next month at a major industry event. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/090113/uk___lamb_prices_in_spotlight_at_major_industry_conference_.aspx newsroom - meattradenewsdaily.co.uk Tue, 15 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT In 2012, pedigree Limousin cattle sold at official British Limousin Cattle Society (BLCS) sales have broken through the £8 million mark for the first time to set a new all-breeds record sales gross mark of £8,184,303. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/150113/uk___limousin_sales_more_than__million_.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Tue, 15 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT Sainsbury's has pledged to increase the amount it pays for lamb until the end of February at more than 60p/kg above the market rate. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/140113/_uk___sainsbury_put_a_floor_in_the_lamb_market.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Tue, 15 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT Liver Fluke is causing havoc in many parts of the UK, says Lesley Stubbings of SCOPS. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/150113/uk___scops_warns_of_liver_fluke.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Tue, 15 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT Farmers are losing £29 on average for every lamb they sell at market after new figures revealed farm gate prices have dropped by a fifth in the past year. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/150113/uk___sheep_farmers_telling_porky_pies_.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Tue, 15 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT The National Sheep Association (NSA) is shocked to hear that staff in some supermarket stores are suggesting UK lamb is ‘out of season’ and this is the reason for high volumes of New Zealand lamb on the shelves. This is a bitter blow for UK sheep farmers at a time when farm-gate prices are struggling and many are not receiving financial returns that cover the cost of production. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/150113/uk___struggling_sheep_farmers_need_consumers_and_retailers_to_back_british_lamb.aspx newsroom - meattradenewsdaily.co.uk Tue, 15 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT U.K. consumers generally don't know some of the country's farmers use genetically modified animal feed, but once made aware, they typically think that products derived from such livestock should be clearly labeled, research by the Food Standards Agency shows. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/150113/uk___the_media_created_gm_fears_.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Tue, 15 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT VION announces successful completion of MBO for UK Pork division http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/150113/uk___vion_foods_the_lunatics_now_run_the_asylum_.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Tue, 15 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT Welsh Country Foods has today announced it could be forced to close its lamb processing business on the Island of Anglesey, employing almost 350 people, following the decision by its key customer that it plans to consolidate its fresh lamb business with an alternative supplier. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/110113/uk___announcement_from_welsh_country_foods_over_abattoir_closure.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Mon, 14 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT The Campaign to Protect Rural England says the big name supermarkets need to do more to encourage better management of beautiful landscapes in areas such as the Westcountry. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/040113/uk___farmers_demand_to_much_from_supermarkets_.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Mon, 14 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT John sold me tens of thousands of sheep in the early sixties direct from farmers on Exmoor for my abattoir at Exbourne. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/150113/uk___john_james_of_mole_valley_farmers_has_died_.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Mon, 14 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT For the last 30 years pig farmers and the piss poor meat industry press have been telling us sow crates are not cruel. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/140113/uk___pig_farmers_have_been_lying_for_years_or_they_are_lying_now_.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Mon, 14 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT A livestock market formed by 250 local farmers has brought the hammer down on its most successful year. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/090113/uk___rugby_farmers_mart_rfm_.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Mon, 14 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT The British Cattle Breeders Club (BCBC) is to host its annual conference on January 21-23, 2013, with speakers including industry experts from around the world, as well as some of the UK’s most forward-thinking beef and dairy cattle producers. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/040113/uk___the_british_cattle_breeders_club_bcbc_.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Mon, 14 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT Harrison & Hetherington has announced the appointment of three eminent international livestock experts to judge the second Borderway UK Dairy Expo. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/140113/uk___uk_dairy_expo_with__international_judges.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Mon, 14 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT Your challenge, or maybe it is the challenge of whoever succeeds you on your farm, is to produce food in sufficient quantities to feed three billion additional people 40 years from now. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/140113/uk___we_could_feed__billion_pople_today_as__of_food_wasted_.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Mon, 14 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT List of all recent work http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/040113/slaughter_and_may_is_advising_vion_nv.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Sun, 13 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT The ANM Group can confirm it has successfully concluded the legal sign-off for the management buyout of its Yorkshire Premier Meats business. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/100113/uk___anm_group_concludes_management_buyout_agreement_for_yorkshire_premier_meats.aspx newsroom - meattradenewsdaily.co.uk Sun, 13 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT The dust has settled on the controversy to postpone the pilot badger culls. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/080113/uk___bovine_tb_and_badgers_.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Sun, 13 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT In an edited version of his address to the Oxford Farming conference, Environment Secretary Owen Paterson said CAP reforms need simplicity. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/080113/uk___cap_reform.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Sun, 13 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT Longtown Primestock Sale 2013-01-04 http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/080113/uk___cattle_markets_.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Sun, 13 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT Today's children are increasingly out of touch with the countryside – and with farming in particular. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/080113/uk___children_on_the_farm_.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Sun, 13 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT Leading halal group (ANSA) warns Muslims that 'they have been denied of their legal rights under the statuary Law' by the authorities (DEFRA/Food Standards Agency) of mislabelled meat as Halal. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/281212/uk___defrafsa_forcing_muslims_to_eat_dead_meat_as_halal_.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Sun, 13 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT The Royal Association of British Dairy Farmers has restructured its Livestock Event management team. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/080113/uk___the_royal_association_of_british_dairy_farmers.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Sun, 13 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT For Harrison and Hetherington, the year 2012 was every bit as exciting as the London Olympics - a full programme of events, with many different entrants competing, and often from across the globe. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/080113/uk____northern_auction_olympians.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Sat, 12 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT Sales for the West Bromwich-based 2 Sisters Food Group climbed by 9.2 per cent to £616.7 million for the first quarter of its financial year through growth in its poultry and chilled food operations. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/040113/uk____rise_in_sales_at__sisters_food_group_.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Sat, 12 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT Prices rose by almost 3pc in 2012 to £6,214 per acre according to Knight Frank’s Farmland Index, driven by a fall in the supply of good farms for sale, and increased demand from private investors. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/090113/uk___farmers_never_had_it_so_good_.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Sat, 12 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT Mud might be glorious stuff according to the famous Flanders and Swann tune, but it is also part of the "biggest and most costly story in the Westcountry today". http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/080113/uk___farming_in_mud_.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Sat, 12 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT CIRIO, Italy’s favourite and the UK’s fastest growing tomato brand, has created a trio of easy-to-follow, hearty yet healthy recipes that are perfect for anyone looking to turn over a new leaf at the start of 2013. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/070113/uk___feed_the_quotnew_year_new_youquot_with_three_fabulous_recipes_from_cirio_tomatoes.aspx newsroom - meattradenewsdaily.co.uk Sat, 12 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT With cooling temperatures and price rises GEA Farm Technologies is helping dairy farmers to beat the January blues by offering a 5% discount on all TCool bulk tanks that are ordered between January and March 2013. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/110113/uk___gea_cools_its_prices_on_tcool_tanks.aspx newsroom - meattradenewsdaily.co.uk Sat, 12 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT RUSSIA - Last Week Genesus sent their Seventh planeload of High Health Swine Genetics to Agroholding Mercury Company. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/141212/uk___genesus_sends_more_pigs_to_southern_russia_.aspx Argentine Beef Packers S.A. Sat, 12 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT Gilbert’s Foods, a leading supplier of quality meat and poultry dishes to the foodservice sector, has launched a new Sweet Chilli Chicken dish in time for Chinese New Year celebrations on 10th February. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/040113/uk___gilberts_foods_spreads_its_wings_with_new_sweet_chilli_chicken_dish_.aspx newsroom - meattradenewsdaily.co.uk Sat, 12 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT Spiralling demand for its locally sourced products from both the regional hospitality sector and the general public has prompted a leading Lancashire Asian meat wholesaler to embark on a major upgrade at its production unit in Blackburn. http://www.meattradenewsdaily.co.uk/news/281212/uk___ldhm_champions_local_farming_supply_partnerships.aspx newsroom - meattradenewsdaily.co.uk Sat, 12 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT