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New dairy facility offers improved green credentials
DEFRA minister Lord Rooker formally opened the first £80m phase of Robert Wiseman Dairies’ new facility in Bridgwater, Somerset on Wednesday (3 September)
04 September 2008
Linking the food chain brings rewards
Dedicated supply arrangements with retailers can be a great way of adding value to end products and boosting farm incomes. Cedric Porter visits a farming family that has seen real benefits from supply chain co-operation.
03 August 2008
Farming pulls in the viewers with Jimmy's Heroes
New figures from the BBC show that each episode of Jimmy Doherty's Farming Heroes has been getting over 2 million viewers.
01 August 2008
Milk producers urged to cash in on higher seasonality payments
Milk prices this autumn are likely to be the highest since the mid-1990s and dairy farmers should be prepared to take advantage of seasonality payments, milk processors have urged.
31 July 2008
Better times ahead for UK dairy sector, says Milklink chief
Dairy farmers should be optimistic about prospects, says the chief executive of Milk Link, Neil Kennedy. Continuing our series profiling agribusiness leaders, Paul Spackman discovers why
26 July 2008
Asda and First Milk agree milk-for-cheese deal
Co-op First Milk has agreed a deal with retailer Asda to increase the price it receives for cheese by £300/t.
25 July 2008
Omega 3 enriched chicken may have role in cutting heart disease
The problem: Consumption of long chain omega-3 fatty acids in the European population is low and increasing it could help reduce the incidence of cardiovascular disease. One possible means of increasing consumption would be to increase their concentration in widely consumed foods, such as chicken.
15 July 2008
Bernard Matthews relaunches added value products
Bernard Matthews is relaunching its "meal centre" fresh added value products with improved recipes...
07 July 2008
Supermarket price war set to begin
Supermarkets Tesco and Asda are to enter a price cutting war as they try to win back customers from discount retailers
27 June 2008
Big opportunities for non-food crops
A range of non-food crop companies were trying to entice growers at Cereals 2008. Paul Spackman went along to see what they had to offer.
20 June 2008
Video: NFU president Peter Kendall urges farmers to be positive
Farmers need to continue to be positive about their futures but will need to ensure they use new technologies to improve efficiency to realise sustainable profits, Peter Kendall told visitors to Grassland and Muck 2008
22 May 2008
