The latest take-home grocery figures from Kantar show sales fell year on year by 1.9% during the 12 weeks to 5 September 2021. Sales remain 8.7% higher than…
Month: September 2021
New border checks on imports of food and animal products that were due to be introduced on 1 October have been delayed, in what the government…
A sixth round of the Countryside Stewardship Facilitation Fund has been announced today, giving groups of farmers and landowners in England time to consider making an…
Defra has opened a consultation on possible reforms to food labelling that would require businesses to include information on animal welfare. Farming minister Victoria Prentice said…
The French government has raised the risk level for avian influenza after an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N8 at a smallholding in Ardennes. Ducks, hens, turkeys…
Poultry Business is delighted to release the first episode of Poultry Today, a brand new podcast. Host Chloe Ryan speaks to turkey producers, Mark Gorton, managing…
Conservative MP Henry Smith is planning to introduce a bill to parliament that will attempt to ban the use of enriched colony cages in egg production.…
By Charles Bourns, broiler grower, Gloucestershire This is the month when I do one of the most difficult but enjoyable tasks of the year given to…
Retailers are likely to import turkeys from France this year if British producers can’t access enough labour for processing. That is the warning from turkey producer…
By Matt Donald, pig & poultry farmer, north Yorkshire Being a mixed farm of poultry, pigs and arable, the current intermittent sunshine mixed with damp drizzly…