All Meat articles – Page 219
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The Grocer Focus on Northern Ireland
Beef producers: Commitment to mainland surprisingly successful The beef industry might seem to still be in deep crisis but resurgence of sales to the British multiples has been nothing short of spectacular from a supply resource now world class ...
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Bacon: Room for developments
There is a lot of speculation about likely developments at Malton Bacon Factory, which has a planning application for a 4,000 sq m extension. After 12 years as md, Max Hilliard has been promoted to chief executive (see story on page 80), while Neil...
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Obituary: Arthur Skelhorn
Arthur Skelhorn, MBE, for many years a central figure in the independent sector, and a regular contributor to The Grocer on bacon matters, has died in a Manchester nursing home aged 91. Past president on several occasions of the Northern Council of...
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Pigmeat: OECD Agricultural Outlook
Prices predicted to remain soft Pork buyers worried by the rising market might find consolation in the latest Agricultural Outlook published by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in Paris. The OECD staff, who have a good...
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Market watch: Retail meat prices week ending May 6 2000
Average price p/kg Change on week Price range BEEF Topside 612 -36 436 - 716 Rump 892 -44 724 - ...
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MLC PIGS MARKET OUTLOOK Squeeze tighter than expected
Pork production likely to fall again next year Contraction of UK pigmeat production is turning into a severe structural adjustment rather than merely an unusually painful cyclical output swing as seemed likely just a few months ago. "Despite the...
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MLC cattle market outlook Imports set to decline this year
Forecast may prove useful in defusing protests Imports of beef are likely to decline slightly this year, after a sharp increase in 1999, according to the latest edition of the MLC's quarterly Cattle Market Outlook. This published forecast may...
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BSE: Call for French beef ban slated
Conservative Party demands for a ban on imports of French beef and beef products following a surge in the number of BSE cases in France have been rejected by MAFF, the FDF and the NFU. Agriculture minister Nick Brown was urged by his shadow, Tim...
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Compulsory beef labels set to arrive in autumn
EU agriculture ministers have voted to introduce compulsory labelling for beef from September 1 2000 two years ahead of the original date. MAFF minister of state Joyce Quin welcomed the decision but she said the UK already has a beef monitoring...
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OPINION: The absurd and the illegal
The news that exports of French agricultural products to Britain rose last year despite the strength of public opinion against France's refusal to lift the UK beef exports ban will probably provoke wide Gallic smiles down the Champs Elysées....
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Market watch: retail meat prices
Retail meat prices week ending July 29 2000 Average price p/kg Change on week Price range BEEF Topside 605 -1 491 - 719 ...
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Lamb: Closure of ABP's Bathgate plant postponed
Closure of one of the major UK lamb killing and packing plants, the Anglo Beef Processors Bathgate abattoir in southern Scotland, has been postponed. But Irish-owned ABP dismissed initial rumours of a management buyout or sale. Bathgate had been...
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More strain on home market
More pressure on the lamb market appears likely as a new entrant into the sheepmeat export trade begins establishing a customer base on the continent. Producer controlled Farmers Fresh announced on Monday it had struck a deal with Claude...
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Meat prices
retail meat prices week ending October 31 1998 (p/kg) Average price Change on week Price range BEEF Topside 618 11 520 - 716 Rump ...
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bacon report
Quiet August holiday The latest bacon factory returns show a drop in August output of nearly 1,000t, year on year to 15,100t. The small drop in pigmeat imports for UK curing down 400t yoy to 3,500t more a marker of the continental holiday...
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bacon report
Dutch get back into action Shipments of Dutch Royal Crest back bacon to the UK have topped the 100,000 tonne mark again this year. The total to the end of week 49 was 100,500t, with an estimated tonnage for week 50 of some 2,195t. With this week...
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Bacon report
Malton closes Motcombe Malton Foods has closed its Motcombe site, which it bought from Case & Sons in June. The Unigate subsidiary is to concentrate activities at Wiveliscombe, near Taunton. Slaughtering and cutting will be transferred to...
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Public punch-ups don't help
We've said it before, but it's worth repeating. A public punch-up between the major bacon suppliers will do nothing for consumer confidence and, in the long run, everyone will suffer. So it was encouraging, at the Danes' annual bash last weekend,...
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Malton to close Ahoghill
Unigate arm Malton Foods has announced the closure of its Ahoghill butchery and curing plant in early June. The previously announced closure of its bacon slicing and packing facility at Enniskillen has come forward to March 10. Some 300 jobs are at...
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Dull' presentation of bacon blasted by DMB
Retailers came under fire from the Dutch Meat Board this week for "not communicating positive images of the product instore." The allegation came in the DMB's annual market review which declared: "For too long, the retailer has largely ignored the...