Arla Foods has won praise from farmers’ leaders after announcing a new pricing and sourcing strategy for milk, which starts with a significant increase in the price it will pay for milk.
Milk processors and dairy farmers will need to make far greater use of price hedging tools if they are to survive in today’s increasingly volatile world, claims a leading dairy risk management analyst.
High doses of vitamin D given in addition to antibiotic treatment appear to help patients with tuberculosis (TB) recover more quickly, according to new research.
Food giant Nestlé has said that its recent size reduction of assortment product Quality Street in the UK does not mean it will start to downsize other items in its confectionery range.
Birmingham Council Trading Standards officials, backed by police, have raided halal wholesalers in the city and seized hundreds of chickens, computer equipment and documents.
Short-term shortages of wheat for food processors and longer-term price increases are likely to be the outcome of the wettest summer for a century, a crop specialist has warned.
Morrisons’ new fish processing plant in Grimsby began operations today (September 3) − five months after work began on converting a disused factory at Europa Park.
UK-based supermarket chain Sainsbury's is set to launch kiwiberries, which have been grown in Britain. The company noted that the bite size fruit will be exclusive and first for any retailer in the UK.
Linpac Packaging, a UK-based food packaging manufacturer, has partnered with Addmaster to develop an advanced packaging range with built-in antimicrobial technology to ease bacteria growth on the outer packaging of meat.
Addressing food and water security is crucial to Europe’s farmers, but widespread European regulation on water is not the way forward, delegates at an international water conference in Sweden were warned.