Royal Show – news roundup


4 July 2000



Royal Show – news roundup

British logo used on foreign food

04 July, 2000

THE British Farm Standard logo, which is supposed to promote British food, is being used on imported produce.

Cash call for green farm schemes

04 July, 2000

FARMERS at the Royal Show have found themselves bombarded by messages about the benefits of joining environmental farming schemes.

Farmers back bid to win over public

04 July, 2000

FARMERS at this years Royal Show have backed moves to attract more members of the non-farming public to agricultural events.

Another year of pain from Pound, warns bank

03 July, 2000

FARMING will have to cope with the strong Pound for at least the next 12 months, a leading bank warned at the Royal Show.

Minister to demand more beef exports

03 July, 2000

BRITAIN will demand a relaxation of rules governing beef exports – despite the discovery of a BSE-infected animal which raised new fears about the disease.

Farming is the countryside, claims NFU

03 July, 2000

THE National Farmers Union has stepped up the debate over the future of rural Britain by insisting that agriculture must be at the heart of the countryside.

Britain waters down pigmeat adverts

03 July, 2000

ANOTHER advertisement in the controversial 4.6 million campaign to promote British pigmeat was unveiled at the Royal Show on Monday.

Royals still about farming – RASE

03 July, 2000

THE chief executive of the Royal Agricultural Society of England (RASE) has dismissed suggestions that the Royal Show no longer has farming at its core.

Carey calls for urban-rural unity

03 July, 2000

THE Archbishop of Canterbury has called for greater unity between rural and urban communities in a speech which focused on the farming crisis.

Rural crime climbs – but not on farms

03 July, 2000

RURAL crime increased last year – but the level of on farm theft dropped as criminals targeted more lucrative rural businesses and homes, says a new report.

Know world market, meat exporters told

02 July, 2000

MEAT exporters have been urged to develop better strategies if they are to cash in on a predicted 35% growth in the global meat market over the next 10 years.

Dairy costs much worse than farmers think

02 July, 2000

DAIRY farmers are losing more money than they think, claim the Royal Agricultural Society of England and accountants Deloitte and Touche.

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