All Meat articles – Page 219
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Meat: Chains fear lamb sector unrest
Mike Ingham Fear of violent protests by lamb producers against retailers has helped prompt the National Farmers' Union to ask DEFRA and the European Commission for a subsidised storage scheme to prevent a market collapse during the coming autumn....
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PIGMEAT: Catalonian swine fever gives traders a fright
Prices blip but optimistic outlook for containment Cynics in the pork and bacon trades have long regarded livestock disease as the most reliable form of pig price support, and sure enough an outbreak of classical swine fever in Catalonia has...
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Avocados: Andalucian growers go down the organic route
South Africa selling a record proportion of fruit in ripe and ready to eat packs Increasing numbers of Spanish growers in Andalucia are converting avocado Hass, Fuerte, Bacon and Reed varieties to organic production to meet UK supermarket demands....
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Pork and bacon: Instability set to persist for EU pigmeat ma
European industry depends on recurrent BSE crises to pull demand from beef Another BSE scare in France last weekend [June 9-10] sent fresh tremors through the EU pigmeat markets. This disturbance is the latest in a quick succession of unpredicted...
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Meat supply: Beef shortage fears
Short-term supply looks good but trade concerned about longer term New outbreaks of FMD are prompting more warnings of a severe shortage of home produced beef next year, despite the present softening of the market as abattoirs kill almost normal...
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Steak-loving Americans will soon have a new word to add to t
Quorn got the go-ahead from MAFF in the UK back in 1985 when the first product to hit the shelves was Sainsbury's Quorn pie. The myco-protein now turns over $150m in the UK and Europe including the Netherlands, Belgium and Sweden and extends its...
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CANNED MEAT: Corned beef appealing to high protein' consume
Foot and mouth disease in South America fails to disrupt export operations Importers are confident there will be no disruption to supplies following the outbreak of foot and mouth disease in the south of Brazil. In spite of stringent border...
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New product development: Cranswick confidently adds value in
The proof it is possible for a meat product manufacturer to profit by adding value Pork processor Cranswick's confident launch of a range of premium sausages using entirely home-produced raw material highlights the unreliability of common...
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Sheepmeat: Severe squeeze may be in store for supplies of la
Irish Food Board forecasts much tighter availability than MLC analysts Abundant cheap lamb next autumn is no longer the safe bet it seemed a few weeks ago. Supplies may even be severely squeezed in early 2002. The odds still favour softening...
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Pigmeat: Dutch hope foot and mouth over
In UK, talk of pig slaughterings returning to normal rates is misleading Dutch pork and bacon suppliers had more good news for customers on Monday, reporting further easing of FMD controls and cautiously expressing hope the disease crisis was over...
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Beef and lamb: Supply chain patched back
Restoring the supply chain from livestock farm to abattoir continues, though more slowly than many wholesale and retail traders believe is necessary as MAFF becomes increasingly confident it has the FMD epidemic contained. Arrangements for sheep...
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MLC pork commercials
At least 82% of housewives with children will have six opportunities to see the new MLC pork commercials on television. When these ads were first shown last year a 10% uplift was recorded in sales of promoted cuts, the MLC claims. Colmans and...
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Corned beef: Brazil guards borders against FMD threat
Brazilian corned ceef producers have increased prices for European grade, used extensively by tertiary brand importers. The $2.00/case uplift has left some dealers exposed to promotional commitments made a few weeks ago when prices were weakening....
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Meat marketing: MLC launches pork ads to heal damage of FMD
Tonnages and spending some 5-10% lower than usual for time of year British pork will be back on the TV screens on Monday [May 14] as part of a £900,000 advertising campaign to begin repairing the damage inflicted on the meat market by the FMD...
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Beef: Supply picture starting to appear less abundant
Overall EU market in surplus and kill increasing within UK, but... Normality would be the wrong word, but something less dramatic than crisis is now the state of the EU beef market following Russia's partial resumption of imports from Germany,...
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Pigmeat; Cheaper Danish on way as herd grows
Other countries likely to grow capacity and push EU market into surplus Cheaper pork and bacon next year is the message to UK buyers from Denmark, where latest farm census results show an astonishing increase in pig numbers. Although the Danes...
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Lang's beef. Tim Lang, professor of food policy at Thames Va
Have you watched TV this week? If you have, you are a failure as far as the campaign group White Dot, which organised the International Television Turn-off Week, is concerned. We live in a TV obsessed culture, with most people spending half their...
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BACON REPORT: Foot and mouth disease has hit demand harder t
Resumed Dutch imports give jitters to UK traders Limited shipments of pork and bacon from the Netherlands to British customers were expected to resume on Wednesday after the easing of Dutch restrictions on livestock movement, slaughtering and...
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Beef: Farmgate prices appear to be holding up despite produc
Prime cattle numbers heading for reduction Margins are probably being squeezed in the beef trade between farm gate and supermarket checkout, reality conflicting with persistent media allegations of profiteering by retailers and processors. While...
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Corned beef: A profit for Brazilians
Consolidation within the Brazilian corned beef industry seems to be paying off for the major frigorificos as a hardening of prices is resulting in profitability, a situation that has eluded packers for some time. As Argentina cannot export...