All Production & Trade articles – Page 1469
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ArticleNew salad mix from Brakes
With the foodservice industry in mind, Brakes has launched its new British-grown winter salad mix.
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ArticleTen Fairtrade facts to celebrate fortnight
Next week sees the start of the 8th annual Fairtrade Fortnight. To start 14 days of raising consumer awareness in the UK; new Fairtrade nut brand Liberation has put together a list of 10 things you maybe didn't know about Fairtrade.
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ArticleLEAF ahead of the game
Linking the Environment and Farming (LEAF) told FPJ it is already doing everything the Sustainable Development Commission (SDC) called on Defra to do in a report last week.
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Irish growers get minister's support
Irish horticulture minister Trevor Sargent has spoken out in support of the campaign by the republic’s growers for improved prices from the multiples.
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Beeson steps into retirement
Tony Beeson has this week announced his retirement as a director of British and Brazilian Produce Co Ltd.
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ArticleNew online monitoring forum unveiled
A new online food-monitoring forum launched two weeks ago is set to overhaul the way European produce firms keep track of residues on their imported products.
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ArticleKanzi for breakfast
English apples and pears for breakfast at school before lessons gets underway has proven a hit at Green Acre High School in Walderslade, Kent, following a joint initiative by grower Adrian Scripps Ltd and category manager Richard Hochfeld Ltd.
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ArticleIsraeli herb growers stand strong
Israeli herb growers have renewed the majority of the product struck by recent sub-zero temperatures, and supply is expected to be back on track within three weeks.
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ArticleACP calls for fair banana treatment
ACP banana representatives have expressed grave concerns that the EU may be back-tracking on previous assurances, threatening the livelihhod of banana producers and exporters in ACP countries.
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ArticleSouthern hemisphere apple figures released
The World Apple & Pear Association has released its forecasts for the southern hemisphere top-fruit campaign this year indicating a decrease in the apple harvest and an increase in the pear crop.
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Costa Rica's UK sendings climb
Costa Rica’s banana exports to the UK have grown by seven per cent year on year.
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ArticleRooker defends public procurement policy
Food and farming minister Lord Rooker was yesterday forced to admit that his attempts to force a domestically-oriented public procurement policy across the halls of Westminster have failed to date.
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ArticleSupermarket attitudes will shape farmers' futures
There are some very good signs for the British horticulture sector at the moment, said Peter Kendall at this year’s NFU conference, but the future make-up of the domestic agriculture industry will very much depend on the attitudes of the major customers.
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ArticleTime to take on the Trolleygarchs
Liberal Democrat Party leader Nick Clegg used the NFU conference stage to call for more support for supermarket suppliers, saying “it’s time to take on the Trolleygarchs”.
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ArticleNeville-Rolfe stuns farmers with Tesco perspective
Tesco’s Lucy Neville-Rolfe did her best to alienate every sector of the NFU membership in turn during her presentation at the union’s annual conference, but saved some of her more palatable words for fresh produce.
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ArticleHigh hopes for Spanish grape season
Prospects for the Spanish grape season this year are shaping up well.
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ArticleSpanish call for import ban
Citrus growers in Spain’s major production area of Valencia are calling on their government to ban imports of South African citrus following the publication of plant health results from 2007 showing the presence of pest and disease.
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ArticleKendall takes pragmatic political view
National Farmers Union Peter Kendall has his hands tied to a certain extent when it comes to partisan political statements, but took a very pragmatic view in a press conference at the NFU’s annual conference yesterday.
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ArticleBenn outlines challenges and potential
Defra secretary of state Hilary Benn addressed 1,000 members and delegates at the NFU's centenary conference in London's Hilton Metropole yesterday, and faced some tough questions form the floor afterwards.
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ArticleCameron woos UK producers
Conservative Party leader David Cameron told the NFU's centenary conference that food security would be a priority for the Tories should they get into power. He also laid into the current government, labeling it “incompetent, arrogant and over-bearing”.