Closing the productivity gap between English and EU pig producers and a new focus on pork as a midweek meal solution are two underpinning themes of AHDB Pork’s three year strategy published for consultation today (1 December).
Read more: New UK Pork Strategy Aims to Close the Productivity GapBacon is one food that is remarkably and also obscurely healthy. The British morning meal staple-bacon as well as eggs. It’s also part of a diet regimen of the world’s earliest individual, Susannah Mushatt Jones 116 years old, who eats bacon and also eggs everyday.
Read more: How to Cook Bacon in The Oven… if you have no other options!New Defra figures have shown a dramatic fall in farm incomes for the third consecutive year. The National Farmers Union says this has had a huge impact on farming businesses with some sectors, such as dairy and pigs, seeing their incomes halved. It believes the main reasons for the dramatic falls are lower commodity prices…
Read more: Fall in UK Farm Incomes ContinuesBritish bangers are losing their bang because modern recipes are leaner and healthier, scientists have found. A study found that today’s sausages made much less of a sizzle when being cooked because they generally contain less fat and water than traditional recipes from the past. Food researchers even found that each type of sausage could…
Read more: Why healthier sausages have led to bangers losing their bangAHDB is looking for a pig producer and an independent member to join the board of AHDB Pork. The successful applicants will become members in April next year. The producer must be a levy payer, to ensure the views of producers are heard, and will help to steer the strategy for the sector.
Read more: AHDB Seeking Pig Producer for AHDB Pork BoardSupply discipline is going to be key to the performance of the global pork market next year, warns today’s quarterly pork report from Rabobank. “Prospects for 2017 are weak, with global trade expected to stabilise and with all the main producers in expansion mode,” said Rabobank’s animal protein analyst, Albert Vernooij, adding that this will…
Read more: EU pig herd expansion needs to “stop or decline” to support pricesThe full English breakfast can be considered as a British tradition that holds its source from the early 1300s. Up to now the traditional English breakfast is highly popular and you can find such a breakfast wherever British people have settled, as they take their tradition with them wherever they go. The British breakfast started…
Read more: What do you know about the full English breakfastA security alert was sparked at Manchester airport when a pork pie-loving pensioner tried to carry his tasty treat through the scanners.
Read more: Come pie with me: Wiganer’s pork pie sparks airport security alertA Government review into the Grocery Code Adjudicator (GCA) should look at extending the role to cover more of the supply chain, the National Farmers Union (NFU) has said. This follows an announcement that the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has agreed to launch an industry call for evidence of unfair trading practices,…
Read more: NFU Calls for Grocery Adjudicator Role to be ExtendedThe Co-operative has declared that it is to source all its fresh bacon and lamb from British farms. Hailed by the National Farmers’ Union as a “bold move” that shows a real commitment to quality British food, the Co-op said its switch to 100 per cent domestic bacon and lamb will take effect in its…
Read more: Co-op to rely only on British for bacon and lamb
