All Meat articles – Page 234

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beef

2000-02-05T00:00:00Z

Rising consumption poor indicator of price prospects due to heavy stocks Bord Bia challenges Brussels' optimism Bord Bia published an implicitly pessimistic analysis this week of the beef market. Its latest Market Monitor reports the EU Beef...
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beef

2000-02-05T00:00:00Z

Eire and UK traders cautious on price prospects EU aid may stem Irish imports Irish beef supply could tighten soon, following a Brussels decision to increase subsidies on sales to third countries and a resumption of live cattle exports to North...
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beef

2000-02-05T00:00:00Z

Argentinian beef selling at 30% discount at Smithfield Wooler spotlight on British beef breeds Key focus of the National Beef Association's Beef 2002 event at Wooler this week was restoring the flagging fortunes of the beef production sector by...
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beef

2000-02-05T00:00:00Z

Scots remain very worried by downtrend Pressure on beef processors in Scotland appears to be easing somewhat as the differential between cattle markets there and south of the border continues to narrow. R3 and R4 steers are now selling at only...
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beef

2000-02-05T00:00:00Z

Cyclical downturn begins as EC reports June census Cattle numbers start to decline Beef production in the EU is beginning a cyclical downturn. Cattle numbers have started falling in some of the most important breeding regions, and meat output this...
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beef

2000-02-05T00:00:00Z

Maintaining that premium Uncertainty in the beef market can be attributed mainly to subsidy reform orginally greeted by most retailers and some processors as a welcome move towards more realistic prices. Instead, as the first elements of the EU's...
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BEEF

2000-02-05T00:00:00Z

Startling supply contrast between UK and the continent UK beef output falls but consumption up Multiples and their major suppliers are coming under increasing political pressure to source meat from home producers, but it becomes harder to...
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beef

2000-02-05T00:00:00Z

Policy reversal part of emergency aid package Brown keeps calf cull scheme Mike Ingham Floods of cheap manufacturing beef as waste product' from the dairy industry appear less likely following a U-turn by Agriculture Minister Nick Brown over the...
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beef

2000-02-05T00:00:00Z

Riverside Evesham looks to boost supplier confidence Ready meals buoy up trade Surprising stability is developing in parts of the forequarter beef trade, among the best evidence so far being the keenness of executives at M&S ready meal supplier...
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beef

2000-02-05T00:00:00Z

In-calf beef heifer numbers sharply lower Tighter supply fears mount More evidence to support the pessimists who claim a tighter beef cattle market looms has emerged in the results of MAFF's December UK livestock census. In-calf beef heifer...
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beef

2000-02-05T00:00:00Z

Supermarket buyers trying to avoid further inflation Cattle finishers attack pricing Complaints by beef cattle finishers against supermarkets sound increasingly like the protests from pig producers. Multiples are accused of trying to impose...
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beef

2000-02-05T00:00:00Z

Cowbeef squashes prices; bull beef values weakened; intervention casts shadow Continental outlook set to favour British buyers Press reports of EU agriculture commissioner Franz Fischler and his advisors in Brussels predicting the beef market will...
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beef

2000-02-05T00:00:00Z

End of calf cull scheme may boost fatstock output by only 200,000 Market will stay tight says NBA Scarcity and high prices are likely to persist in the beef cattle markets well into next year, with the extra manufacturing meat supply from...
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BEEF

2000-02-05T00:00:00Z

Alliance recites 3Ls It might seem like an unholy alliance at first glance, but a marketing group with traditional Aberdeen-Angus beef links has just got into bed with the British Limousin Cattle Society. Not so, says Jim Ironside of the...
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beef

2000-02-05T00:00:00Z

Quin impresses as British beef returns Mike Ingham, Brussels British beef nominally returned to the international market on Wednesday when MLC hosted a lunch for MEPs, other European dignitaries and an unexpectedly large media crowd at the plush...
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BEW: fast frozen success

2000-02-05T00:00:00Z

Believed to be the biggest distribution centre of its kind in the UK, Hams Hall is cutting costs and offering flexibility to retailers large and small Birds Eye Wall's says its Hams Hall national distribution centre near Birmingham has brought a...
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Good idea, unfortunate timing

2000-02-05T00:00:00Z

Sir; re Opinion, The Grocer, Jan 8. I read with interest your editorial comment recently regarding the gradual decline in the purchase of bacon in the UK and how this decline was affecting British, Dutch and Danish producers. I also noted your...
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PORK PUSH ON TV

2000-02-05T00:00:00Z

A £1m TV campaign promoting pork began on Tuesday, launched by the MLC to "remind people what a wonderful meal pork can provide" and to boost demand for chops and steaks as midweek family meals. These cuts have recently failed to match the...
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Retail meat prices week ending January 22 2000

2000-01-22T00:00:00Z

Average price p/kg Change on week Price range BEEF Topside 668 1 573 - 763 Rump 867 22 683 - 1051 Premium ...
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Februaryitis' bug looms as gammon trade falls

2000-01-22T00:00:00Z

The bacon trade looks set for a severe epidemic of its traditional midwinter bug, "Februaryitis". Regional reports on Thursday revealed a very slow trade, with the gammon business particularly flat in the wake of the festive season. One packer...