NATIONAL FARMERS UNION leader Peter Kendall has seen members endure a miserable 10 months but concerns over food security, prices and sourcing in the wake of the horse meat scandal could offer new opportunities, he tells David Burrows. To travel 600 miles [...]
THE NFU has long fought for better relationships between retailers and farmers, but its president also has the government’s buying practices in his sights. In an exclusive interview, published in April’s Footprint, Peter Kendall refers to food procurement within central government as “lax”, and says [...]
ENVIRONMENTALISTS ACCUSE MEP’S of watering down eco-friendly plans for Common Agricultural Policy. Much has been done to improve the environmental performance of agriculture, but a recent vote in Europe on the next stage of the budget for farming subsidies could, say environmentalists, stall [...]
The National Farmers Union has confirmed that for the first time in a decade Britain will become a net importer of wheat. NFU president Peter Kendall said more than two million tonnes of wheat had been lost because of last year’s poor summer. Peter [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
SODEXO, BRAKES and 3663 are the only three foodservice businesses to appear on a new NFU list of the companies that are paying dairy farmers a fair price. Costa Coffee is the lone High Street food and drink outlet on the list. The NFUs list, [...]
FOCUSING ON LONG term horizons and 2050 forecasts has allowed governments and other organisations to put off the big, and sometimes difficult decisions, that need making today. Peter Kendall, president of the National Farmers Union (NFU), used his address at the World Farmers Congress in Rome on [...]
Editor’s comment: NFU poll; 100% pointless
By footprint on February 27, 2013
Published in: Comment and tagged british food, Horsemeat, NFU, NFU Conference, NFU Poll, Peter Kendall.
THE NFU has published a poll this morning showing that, wait for it… consumers want more British food in restaurants and supermarkets. According to the poll, 86% of shoppers are “as likely” or “more likely” to want to buy more traceable food that has been [...]