A third of teachers in the dark about food and farming info
A third of teachers don’t know where to go for information on food, farming and healthy eating practices, according to the results of YouGov research commissioned by AHDB. When questioned, 33% of...
View ArticleUK food businesses urged to trust British Lion
British Lion egg processors are calling on food businesses to buy British, following extensvie news coverage of eggs being recalled in Belgium due to concerns over dioxin contamination. The recall,...
View ArticleScots NFU challenges BBC over need for balanced reporting
Perthshire farmer Martin Kennedy, commenting in his role as vice president of NFU Scotland, has urged the BBC nationally to ‘take a real good look at themselves and start reporting the real facts in a...
View ArticleUlster farmers demand reciprocal tariffs in event of no-deal Brexit
The Ulster Farmers’ Union (UFU) is calling on the UK government to commit to applying reciprocal tariffs for agricultural goods if the UK leaves the EU without a deal on 31st October. UFU president,...
View ArticleAmerican farm chief says US/UK deal will include chlorinated chicken
Zippy Duvall, head of the American Farm Bureau, told the BBC this morning that the UK must accept US food standards as part of any future trade deal with Washington, including the washing of chicken in...
View ArticleSRUC wants mentors to help farmers of the future
Agriculture students are looking for mentors, including poultry producers, to help them complete a new module launched by Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC). The Enterprise Appraisal and Development...
View ArticleNFU voices significant concerns over Better Chicken Campaign
The NFU has raised significant concerns over the pressure that the Better Chicken campaign is placing on the food and poultry sector. The union believes that the ‘significant progress’ the industry has...
View ArticleImporting chlorinated chicken ‘cannot be right’ says Red Tractor chief
Red Tractor CEO, Jim Moseley, has reacted sharply to comments by America Farm Bureau Chief, Zippy Duvall, that any future US/UK trade deal will need to include chlorinated chicken. “This cannot be the...
View ArticleNFU agrees priority farm needs with German farmers’ union
NFU President, Minette Batters (pictured above), and Joachim Rukwied, President of Deutscher Bauernverband, the German farming union, are agreed on upcoming priority issues for farmers in both...
View ArticleNew biosensor promises rapid salmonella detection
US researchers are working on the development of a biosensor they claim will be capable of detecting a small presence of salmonella in food in just a matter of hours. The new sensor, which is being...
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