All Farming articles – Page 106
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Comment & OpinionReading the Brexit tea leaves at the NFU conference
The annual farming showpiece laid out its ambitions for a post-Brexit food sector as delegates discussed trade, labour and encouraging investment in agriculture
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NewsLeadsom plays down prospect of lower quality US meat flooding UK
Andrea Leadsom insisted the government would be ’clear’ in any free-trade discussions on production standards
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NewsThree quarters of fruit and veg eaten in UK is imported
The UK is only 52% self-sufficient in food, with just 23% of the fruit and veg eaten in Britain grown here
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NewsABP: meat industry must maintain EU standards after Brexit
ABP UK MD Tom Kirwan said the UK should resist a reduction in meat production standards in order to target new export markets
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NewsFood industry calls for work on agriculture labour shortages
Call for government to reintroduce the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Scheme (SAWS). which was axed in 2013
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NewsFirst Milk brings payments back into line after two years
Dairy co-op controversially withheld farmer payments in January 2015 for two weeks in order to ease a cashflow crisis
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NewsNFU slammed over hormone and chlorine washing comments
In a radio interview, strategic director Martin Haworth appeared to suggest the NFU would support the practice
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NewsFree-range eggs threatened by avian flu restrictions
Call for extension on EU rules defining what constitutes free-range eggs after bird flu housing orders
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NewsSainsbury's falls down animal welfare standards list
Business Benchmark on Animal Welfare audit said retailer was yet to show it had addressed welfare recommendations
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NewsDairy Crest head of external affairs Olivia Seccombe joins NFU
Seccombe – one of The Grocer’s Top New Talents of 2013 – starts in her new role as NFU head of external affairs today
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Analysis & FeaturesFree-range milk: sounds great... but what exactly is it?
Two new rival “free-range milk” brands are imminent…
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Comment & OpinionWe need a united food and farming system
We have a wealth of talent that could come up with an outline for a combined ‘national food and health system’
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NewsAdjudicator should have powers extended, claims NFU
The union also called for the Adjudicator to be given extra powers to police primary producers
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NewsDefra to switch HQ in bid to save £2m a year
Government department will relocate all staff to same building as Home Office and Department for Communities
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NewsFarmers set to launch Enjoy Milk free-range milk brand
Enjoy Milk is the brainchild of the Free Range Milk Marketing Board and will be backed by generic markting cmapaign for British milk
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Comment & OpinionThe Great British Brexit Mystery continues
Farmers remain in the dark over future plans for their industry after environment secretary Andrea Leadsom’s speech in their own backyard
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NewsLeadsom promises post-Brexit red tape purge
Environment secretary pledges to slash bureaucracy in bid to ‘set farmers free’
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NewsEden Research commercialises natural pest killer
AIM-listed agro-tech firm Eden Research has signed an exclusive commercialisation agreement for its product, which kills worm that attack growing fruit and veg, with Taminco, a subsidiary of Eastman Chemical Company’s global crop protection division.
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Comment & OpinionMüller faces frothing in its non-aligned milk pool
After a relatively quiet past few months, there could be fresh stirrings of mutiny in the sector
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NewsAgriculture taskforce calls for Europe-wide GCA-type body
European agriculture ministers to discuss proposals in bid to tackle unfair trading practices in food supply chain