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January 2010 - Posts

• Hard Cheese – The Baffling Behaviour of Branded Cheddar Sellers

  Dairyco have just published figures for cheese sales in the 52 weeks to end December 2009. The top line picture is that total cheese sales are up, by 4.2% in tonnage, helped, as Dairyco points out, by a very modest price rise of just 1p per kilo. The... Posted Jan 28 2010, 02:51 PM by Land Strategies Farming Blog Select Tags... SaveCancel Filed under: DairyCo, UK Cheese Market [Edit Tags]

• Food Buying Behaviour – Distinguishing Between a Fad and a Trend

  There is a lot of change just now in consumer food buying behaviour, and being able to distinguish between which of these changes are fads and which are trends saves time, money and heartache. Well documented changes include more buying of local and British... Posted Jan 20 2010, 02:26 PM by Land Strategies Farming Blog Filed under: local foods, premium foods, online shopping, food buying trends [Edit Tags]

• Food 2030 – Can We Rely on the Consumer to Make Everything OK?

  One new thread in a document generally viewed as big on aspiration but light on action is the role of the consumer in driving change. By 2030, according to the document, consumers will be “aware of the origins of their food and understand the environmental... Posted Jan 12 2010, 02:18 PM by Land Strategies Farming Blog Filed under: Fair Trade, Food 2030, government advertising spend, changing consumer behaviour [Edit Tags]

• Ways to Grow the Beef Mince Market - A Report for Beef Producers

  Mince accounts for 52% of all beef sold, and it has come under the spotlight in a new report written by the Institute of Grocery Distribution with contributions from Dunhumby, who analyse Tesco data, and Taylor Nelson Sofres who monitor the total market... Posted Jan 05 2010, 02:38 PM by Land Strategies Farming Blog Filed under: NFU, red meat market, IGD, EBLEX, beef market, beef mince [Edit Tags]