All Farming articles – Page 8
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Comment and Opinion
Supermarket veg is over-packaged and over-travelled. No wonder Brits turn away
Only 33% of adults get their 5 a day – and I suspect fruit is disproportionately represented, says Joanna Blythman, food journalist and author of Swallow This
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News
Major apple supplier begins shutdown following price challenges
The apple producer cited a lack of retailer returns as a significant reason for its financial challenges
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The Big Interview
Wildfarmed: the unlikely trio with ‘a silver bullet’ for farming
Inspired by a farming book from 1940, a musician, a TV presenter and a financial guru are bringing their modern take on regenerative agriculture to the masses
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Analysis and Features
How GrowUp Farms is growing UK salad supply year round
From a small unit in London, GrowUp Farms has taken its vertical farming business to a larger site in Kent, where it supplies the likes of Tesco with British-grown salad
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News
‘War room’ head Chris Tyas handed key Defra role
Tyas has been given a three-year term to help provide strategic and corporate leadership to the department under secretary of state Steve Barclay
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News
Müller UK&I sinks to £6m loss in 2022 as inflationary pressures bite
A £25.8m operating profit in 2021 swung to a £5.9m operating loss in the year to 31 December 2022, its latests accounts have shown
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Comment and Opinion
The farming sector is hanging by a thread. Now is the time for change
There needs to be change in all parts of the sector, by farmers and growers as well as by retailers, says Ged Futter, founder of The Retail Mind
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News
Noble Foods redesigns The Happy Egg Co brand to focus on animal welfare
For the first time since 2018, the brand has seen a complete design overhaul, including the return of its brand promise ‘happy hens lay tasty eggs’
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News
Kit Kat brings back limited-edition 70% Dark variant
The four-finger bar is made with cocoa mass-sourced from families enrolled in Nestlé’s cocoa income accelerator programme
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News
Defra proposes changes to egg labelling rules to support British industry
Currently when mandatory housing orders are introduced, eggs from free-range birds may continue to be labelled as ‘free-range’ for 16 weeks and then must be labelled as barn eggs
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News
Clarence Court eggs owner invests in egg supply chain with new finance initiative
The new initiative has been created by Stonegate in partnership with British agriculture bank Oxbury
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News
More imported vegetables likely as flooding hits key growing areas
Carrots, parsnips and leeks are among crops affected by ‘a recent surge in flooding’
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Comment and Opinion
Grim food sector forecasts persist, despite government’s upbeat promises
The government’s manoeuvres in recent days – when it comes to the food sector at least – show it is now very much in electioneering mode
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News
New origin and production food labelling plans in pipeline
The proposals would help back British farmers, said Defra secretary Steve Barclay at today’s Oxford Farming Conference
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Comment and Opinion
Dairy farmers need support to improve systems for people and animals
Dairy processors, retailers, food manufacturers and foodservice companies can all take steps to transform dairy, says Dan Crossley, executive director at the Food Ethics Council
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Comment and Opinion
Why ‘regen ag’ must be more than a buzzword in 2024
The food and farming system must work to bring nature back across the UK, says Mark Varney, head of Fair to Nature at RSPB
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News
Horticulture growth under threat as costs continue to rise for sector
A new report by Promar International found costs of production had increased by as much as 39% in the past two years
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News
Farmers subsidising cheap food ‘cannot continue’, new report urges
The report’s author Ged Futter wrote that recent global and climatic events had exposed supply chain weaknesses and emptied farming bank accounts
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Analysis and Features
How The Black Farmer is creating a ‘black Selfridges’ with its Brixton farm shop
Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones says his The Black Farmer Farmshop in London has been in such high demand he’s had to panic-order more stock
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News
Over half of migrant worker abuse in UK linked to food supply chains, report shows
Abuse against migrant workers in Britain occurred in agriculture, fishing, processing and packaging, as well as on the grocery shop floor