Producer
Although farming has suffered greatly in recently years from the impact of BSE and foot and mouth disease there are still 120,000 farms in the UK that deal with livestock. Government policy has encouraged a change of focus on farms from all-out food production to managing the environment and the countryside. Farms have had to diversify to survive and this has led to a large number of farm shop and on-farm meat business start-ups spawning many new local supply chain networks.
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(02-07-2008)
Sheep farmers will be driven out of the industry if plans for electronic identification go ahead.
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(02-07-2008)
Scientists are calling on farmers to help with research in the bid to battle the development of bluetongue in the UK.
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(01-07-2008)
A brand new ‘Fresh From The Farm’ promotional pack has been produced by EBLEX to help assured beef..
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(20-06-2008)
Minister Jonathan Shaw has announced that the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) must pay 75% of Single Payments by the end of January 2009, but farming leaders say it is not enough.
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(17-06-2008)
Farmers within the bluetongue protection zone (PZ) are being urged by the Joint Action against Bluetongue (JAB) to vaccinate their animals if they have not already done so.
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(17-06-2008)
Farming leaders are calling for further increases in farmgate prices for beef and lamb to safeguard long-term sustainability of the sectors.
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(13-06-2008)
A leading feed manufacturer has announced it is to sell its pig marketing operations in the face of increasing sector consolidation.
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(12-06-2008)
A pet porker's precious pinkies have been protected thanks to some ingenious thinking from a sausage producer.
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(11-06-2008)
Beef and sheep producers’ profit margins remain under severe pressure, despite recent increases in the farmgate price, according to the latest EBLEX estimates of Business Pointers farm costings data.
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(10-06-2008)
The Scottish government will fight “tooth and nail” against proposals to introduce electronic identification (EID) for sheep, a minister has pledged.