All articles by Grace Duncan – Page 9
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NewsBranston ups stock of ‘ultimate roast potato’ on supermarket shelves
Over a million units of the Nemo potato will be available this season, equivalent to 87% more stock compared with 2024
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NewsDefra must legislate against cages, new campaign calls
The six-week campaign, which began on Friday 10 October, features an animation that contrasts the life of a caged hen with one that has more freedom to engage in natural behaviours
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NewsWaitrose rolls out emissions tracking across seafood supply chain
The platform, created by industry body Seafish, allows seafood businesses to generate carbon footprints for both wild-capture and aquaculture products by inputting supply chain data such as fuel use, processing, packaging and transport
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NewsSeafood unfairly singled out in microplastics debate, scientists say
Evidence has suggested that fish and shellfish are not the main source of human exposure to microplastics despite more than 70% of scientific and media coverage on microplastics in food focusing on seafood
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NewsVeg Power announces campaign with Sakata, Barfoots and Waitrose
The non-profit alliance will lead the campaign to celebrate the British butternut season and inspire families to cook with the vegetable
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NewsArla celebrates 50 years at Lockerbie site with £144m investment
The site opened in 1975 and has since grown into one of the UK’s largest cheese-making facilities
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NewsCountryside Stewardship funds extended for next year
Defra secretary Emma Reynolds and NFU president Tom Bradshaw had a meeting and confirmed the extension of the scheme, which was due to expire at the end of the year
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NewsLidl doubles sourcing commitment with £30bn investment in UK food
The discounter said the pledge strengthened its commitment to backing British suppliers and supported long-term sustainable growth across the sector
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NewsUK food needs radical and urgent transformation, new study finds
The report, The Roadmap for Resilience: A UK Food Plan for 2050, has said that if there is no action the UK will lurch from crisis to crisis, including from food price shocks, climate disasters and weakening economic productivity
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NewsRed Tractor slams ASA after advert banned for ‘misleading’ consumers
The farm assurance scheme’s advert, last aired in 2023, was found by the ASA to have misled consumers over its environmental standards
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NewsFyffes launches brand activation across entire Morrisons estate
The campaign will span 488 stores across the length and breadth of the UK and will lead with the tagline ‘Eat ‘em, Like ‘em, Love ‘em’
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NewsPlenish launches zero-sugar oat drink in ‘category first’
In what the brand has called a category first, the new zero-sugar product contains neither oils nor additives
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NewsMinor Figures launches regeneratively farmed oat milk with Wildfarmed
Barista Oat (Regenerative) is the brand’s first barista standard oat milk made with regeneratively grown oats
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NewsClarence Court adds Burford Buff eggs to range
The ‘fabulous eggs by fabulous birds’ have a maize-enriched diet that produces eggs with a ‘rich and creamy flavour’
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Comment & OpinionWill an Inheritance Tax u-turn be too little, too late for UK’s farmers?
Almost a year after Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ controversial budget announcement on changes to Inheritance Tax relief for farming businesses, could we now be on the cusp of at least a partial u-turn?
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NewsRedefine Meat secures first bricks & mortar listing with Asda
The brand’s ‘New Meat’ products will be available in Asda stores across the country
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NewsCo-op announces move to 100% ASC certification by 2027
The supermarket said it has strengthened its commitment to responsible sourcing
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NewsUnite launches recognition campaign at Milk & More
Milk & More has formally moved to derecognise Unite and fellow union Usdaw
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NewsEngland experiences second worst harvest on record, data shows
New analysis from the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit has shown the scale of impact the warmest spring and summer and driest spring in over 100 years has had on cereal harvests
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NewsFarmfoods sites targeted by animal rights activists
The supermarket’s Glasgow HQ, offices in Birmingham and Solihull depot, were all targeted by activists from The Humane League