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• How Consumers Decide What Meat to Buy

  According to a recent piece of market research by EBLEX 23% of people are cutting back on the amount of meat they buy. This is not good news as a drop in demand tends to mean over supply and falling farmgate prices. Conscious of the need to stimulate... Posted Feb 11 2013, 11:38 AM by Land Strategies Farming Blog Select Tags... SaveCancel Filed under: red meat market, meat consumption, EBLEX, recessionary food buying [Edit Tags]

• Warning Call From EBLEX - More Must be Done to Boost Red Meat Consumption

  Hard work is needed to keep consumers buying beef and lamb. That is the message coming from EBLEX’s recent conference , and it is an important one. Farm gate prices are strong just now, helped by a reduction in supply from UK farms, a reduction in imports... Posted Nov 10 2011, 02:59 PM by Land Strategies Farming Blog Filed under: Lamb consumption, EBLEX, beef market, lamb eating quality [Edit Tags]

• Why the consumer is buying less lamb – insight from EBLEX shows it’s not just about price

  This year consumers have bought 6% less lamb than last, and the decline seems to be speeding up. In the last 12 weeks consumers bought 11% less lamb than they did in the same period last year. These are scary numbers and the pessimist might envisage a... Posted Nov 11 2010, 03:10 PM by Land Strategies Farming Blog Filed under: Lamb consumption, EBLEX, Lamb market prices, lamb eating quality [Edit Tags]

• Addressing the Beef Pricing Problem

  The short answer to the problem of low farm gate prices is to get demand to outstrip supply. The balance this year is particularly out of whack. Between April, when prices started to plummet, and August (latest published data), around 9% more cattle were... Posted Oct 27 2010, 02:21 PM by Land Strategies Farming Blog Filed under: NBA, EBLEX, beef pricing [Edit Tags]

• How Do You Solve a Problem Like Falling Lamb Consumption - Thoughts from Sheep 2010

  There was standing room only for the session on marketing at last week's NSA event where farmer Geoffrey Probert, May Hill representative Henry Dunn, Remi Fourrier from EBLEX, and Steve McClean of Marks and Spencer discussed a variety of issues. The... Posted Aug 10 2010, 02:38 PM by Land Strategies Farming Blog Filed under: Lamb consumption, EBLEX, Marks and Spencer, lamb eating quality, National Sheep Association, Sheep 2010 [Edit Tags]

• Consumers and Shoppers – The Importance of Understanding the Difference.

  From The Institute of Grocery Distribution comes a timely reminder of the difference between shoppers and consumers, consumers being the person who ultimately eats or uses a product and the shopper being the one who buys the product from the shop. Sometimes... Posted Feb 14 2010, 04:08 PM by Land Strategies Farming Blog Filed under: DairyCo, IGD, EBLEX, Shoppers, Consumers, Generic Advertising [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]

• UK Lamb Market - Farmgate Prices Strong, Yet Amount Eaten Plummeting. Should We Be Worried?

  To the relief of farmers across the land, farmgate prices for lamb remain firm. Eblex (the English Beef and Lamb Executive) attributes this to the strong euro boosting exports, and a reduction in UK sheep numbers. Eblex forecasts that the euro will continue... Posted Sep 03 2009, 04:00 PM by Land Strategies Farming Blog Filed under: Lamb consumption, EBLEX, Lamb market prices [Edit Tags]