All articles by Harry Holmes – Page 2
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Comment & OpinionWill Andy Burnham be the radical change our food system needs?
As we begin to hear who will be filling many of the top posts in this new government, we should quickly get a clearer picture of how the Burnham administration plans to tackle the many challenges currently facing the British food system
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NewsTrump’s tariffs cap tough year for Walker’s Shortbread
A 10% tariff on imports into the US from Scotland, combined with skyrocketing butter prices, deterred many American shoppers from indulging in the Scottish shortbread
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NewsHeinz volumes fall as shoppers ditch big brands
Heinz’s UK sales slumped last year as the food giant felt the squeeze on everything from inflation to GLP-1s
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Comment & OpinionDubai chocolate, murky supply chains and the trouble with going viral
There’s arguably never been a viral food trend like Dubai chocolate. But in the race to fill their boots, could some chocolatiers have made an almost fatal mistake?
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NewsDanone’s €1bn takeover of Huel to face competition probe
Danone announced the deal in March as part of a company strategy to expand into functional nutrition
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NewsUK-Switzerland trade deal welcomed by British farmers
The new trade deal was welcomed by the NFU, which called it ‘a great example of a balanced deal’
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NewsNew platform promises to tackle ‘huge inefficiencies of the transport market’
The equivalent of more than 600 football pitches of warehouse space are empty in the UK, while on the roads, lorries travel a quarter of their distance only partially full, according to UK government figures
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NewsNew French border rules threaten meat exports to EU, hauliers warn
Lorries could start getting rejected from August under the new rules
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NewsButlers’ fire pushes cheesemaker to first loss since 2012
Butlers lost a warehouse and hundreds of tonnes of cheese in a blaze in November 2023
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Comment & OpinionWhy climate finance failures are fuelling the UK’s future food crisis
With funding a ’signficant barrier’ to climate adoption, farmers must be given the tools and money they need to adapt
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NewsNorthern Irish farmers offered grants up to £25k to boost farm efficiency
Farmers investing in on-farm equipment and technology worth between £3,000 and £62,500 can apply for a grant
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NewsVolatile milk prices drive heavy losses at dairy processor Ehrmann
British milk prices hit their highest mark since 2022 last year and caused Ehrmann’s losses to double to £3.6m in the year to 31 December
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NewsGlobal livestock farming piling more pressure on living world, study finds
The number of animals farmed worldwide has grown by half in the past two decades while the amount of cropland used to feed them is up by around a quarter
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Comment & Opinion‘Made in Britain’ labels are no substitute for farming policy
In a return to the old political battleground of food labels, more than 40 MPs have called for the government to require clearer country-of-origin labelling on a wider range of meat products
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NewsHalf of British farmers now farming regeneratively, Barclays says
The bank’s survey of 223 farmers found 56% had already moved to regenerative practices, while a further 24% plan to do so
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NewsEU approves pioneering food additive for tackling obesity
Now it is approved in the EU, the scientists behind the ingredient expect the UK regulator to quickly follow suit
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NewsHealthy food proposals could cut childhood obesity by a quarter, study finds
The policy is aimed at encouraging supermarkets to make the average shopping basket healthier
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NewsWelsh food businesses call for DRS alignment with rest of UK
Unlike schemes launching in other parts of the UK, Wales plans to include glass
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Comment & OpinionGreenwashing at Groundswell: has regen-ag been hijacked?
No longer the preserve of idealistic farmers, regenerative agriculture is now firmly on the agenda in boardrooms across the food chain
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NewsNestlé to remove all artificial food dyes by end of 2026
Nestle removed aemoved all artificial flavours, colours and preservatives from its UK confectionery in 2012