NEW GOVERNMENT-BACKED research has revealed that vaccinating badgers can reduce the level of TB within an infected colony by 54%. The results, from a four-year study by the Food and Environment Research Agency (FERA) and university departments, shows that culling badgers is not the only way to [...]
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LARGE SUPERMARKETS have been told to treat their suppliers fairly, or face fines from the new Groceries Code Adjudicator. In a change likely to be widely welcomed by suppliers and farmers, the Competition Minister Jo Swinson announced that the Adjudicator will have more teeth to protect [...]
This was just a must! Does what it says on the jug…..
FOODSERVICE BUSINESSES talk a good game when it comes to supporting British dairy farmers, but few are willing to divulge details of the price they are paying for milk. It takes a lot of bottle to stand up to the might of [...]
THE GOVERNMENT and the National Farmers Union (NFU) have announced that planned badger culls will be postponed until next year. The NFU wrote to Environment Secretary Owen Paterson to request that the pilot badger culls in West Somerset and West Gloucestershire now go ahead in 2013. [...]
PARLIAMENT WILL debate the Governments TB eradication programme, including planned badger culling. The debate, which has been triggered by a public e-petition asking for further discussions on the controversial government policy to eradicate bovine TB, will take place on October 25th 2012. NFU president Peter [...]
FARMERS HAVE accused the RSPCA of hypocrisy after they were warned they could lose their valued Freedom Foods status if they supported or allowed badger controls on their land. In a letter to scheme members, Freedom Food, a wholly owned subsidiary of the RSPCA, claims that, [...]
THE HEAD of one of the UKs biggest milk buyers and dairy processors has suggested that the likes of Costa and Starbucks need to pay more for their milk. In a comment piece for the Daily Telegraph today, Mark Allen, chief executive [...]
CH&Cos Caroline Fry explains why she supports the idea of a fair price for dairy farmers, but its not always easy. When the recent media interest in the price paid to dairy farmers threw an unflattering spotlight on the buying practices of supermarkets, their PR departments [...]
Farms of the future
By footprint on November 20, 2012
Published in: Comment, Features, Features, Foodservice News, Green Scene and tagged Al Gore, Bayer CropScience, Cafedirect, Coventry University, Dr Julia Whright, Dr Patricia Thornley, Elizabeth Bowles, European Food and Farming Partnership, Food Ethics Council, Food for Life Catering, Forum for the Future, Future of Food And Farming, Geoff Tansey, Jonathan Porritt, Julian Little, Mark Driscoll, Michael Bond, NFU, Peter Kendall, Professor Charles Godfray, Professor Sir John Beddington, Rachel Carson, Robert Frost, Robyn Kimber, Silent Spring, Soil Association, The Dailt Telegraph, University of Manchester, University of Oxford, WWF.
FIFTY YEARS ago this month the book Silent Spring kick-started the environmental movement and changed the way we grow our food. As climate change and population growth exert growing pressure, what will the next generation of farms look like? This month marks the 50th anniversary of [...]