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April 2008 - Posts

• Food Inflation - Little Link Between Retail Prices and Input Costs, Livestock Farmers Disadvantaged

  The hoo-ha about food price inflation which swept the media last week prompted an attempt to disentangle sensationalist headlines from fact. I turned to the independent and usually reliable Office of National Statistics to check their Retail Price Index... Posted Apr 28 2008, 10:00 AM by Land Strategies Farming Blog Select Tags... SaveCancel Filed under: food inflation, agricultural input costs [Edit Tags]

• Climate Change and the Farming Industry - At Least They're Saying Something

  At last! A glimmer of response from the farming industry to accusations that livestock farming is destroying the environment and the glib message that the answer is to eat less meat and dairy products. Following an article by George Monbiot in the Guardian... Posted Apr 21 2008, 05:06 PM by Land Strategies Farming Blog Filed under: PETA, Paul McCartney, farming and climate change, NFU, environment [Edit Tags]

• Free Range Chicken Sales Still Flying

  The boom in free range chicken sales continues. The Sunday Telegraph interviewed chicken buyers from ASDA, Tesco and Sainsbury, and they all report the same thing - rocketing demand following the Fearnley Whittingstall/ Jamie Oliver programmes which highlighted... Posted Apr 15 2008, 02:51 PM by Land Strategies Farming Blog Filed under: Animal welfare, Sainsbury, Tesco, Asda, free range chicken [Edit Tags]

• What Do Supermarkets Want from Suppliers?

  Well, the cynical might say silly question, its all about lowest price. And indeed there's no getting away from the fact that supermarkets negotiate very hard - to put it mildly. But there are other factors which supermarkets take into account when... Posted Apr 09 2008, 09:59 AM by Land Strategies Farming Blog Filed under: supply chain, supermarkets, innovation [Edit Tags]

• Ethical Purchasing and the Credit Crunch... Continued

  Concern about whether the credit crunch will bring ethical purchasing to a halt seems to be exercising many minds. The latest to publish a survey is The Times newspaper. In answer to the question "In the next year are you likely to .....", the... Posted Apr 07 2008, 02:02 PM by Land Strategies Farming Blog Filed under: ethical purchasing, organics, Fair Trade, local foods [Edit Tags]

• Ethical Purchasing - Inside the Consumer's Head

  The Institute of Grocery Distribution has previously provided data about the 5 ethical issues that most concern people, these being Animal Welfare, Local/British, Environmentally Friendly, Fair Trade, and Organics. See blog of 7/3/08 "Whither Ethical... Posted Apr 04 2008, 05:38 PM by Land Strategies Farming Blog Filed under: ethical purchasing, Advertising [Edit Tags]