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Word ‘milk’ banned for use in branding of plant-based products

Word ‘milk’ banned for use in branding of plant-based products

Producers using the term ‘milk’ to market purely plant-based products have been forced to rebrand.
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07 Jan 2020
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27,000 chickens culled as low pathogen avian influenza found in Suffolk flock

27,000 chickens culled as low pathogen avian influenza found in Suffolk flock

11 Dec 201909:20
A 1km restriction zone has been put around the farm to ‘limit the risk of the disease spreading’.
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Villiers backtracks on Gove’s promise to set up commission to protect food standards

Villiers backtracks on Gove’s promise to set up commission to protect food standards

05 Dec 201909:11
Defra Secretary Theresa Villiers has backtracked on her predecessor’s cast-iron guarantee to set up a Trade and Food Commission to protect standards after Brexit.
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175 years of Farmers Guardian: How chicken came to rule the roost

175 years of Farmers Guardian: How chicken came to rule the roost

30 Nov 201907:00
In this week’s series celebrating 175 years of Farmers Guardian, we look at how chicken went from being a backyard bird to the brink of being the world’s most consumed protein.
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Food Strategy chief wants fundamental change of the UK’s food system

Food Strategy chief wants fundamental change of the UK’s food system

22 Nov 201915:25
Food Strategy chief Henry Dimbleby has said he wants to carry out a fundamental change of the UK’s food system which will stand the test of time.
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Official data request reveals Welsh Government’s failure to prepare for water rules

Official data request reveals Welsh Government’s failure to prepare for water rules

22 Nov 201906:00
Welsh farmers could receive no financial support to comply with burdensome new water rules, a shocking new official information request has revealed.
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‘Morally indefensible’ for farmers to bear burden of sustainability alone

‘Morally indefensible’ for farmers to bear burden of sustainability alone

21 Nov 201910:40
Retailers which market sustainable products without sharing any of the financial benefit with farmers are engaging in morally indefensible behaviour.
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Tesco chief executive pledged to ‘play part’ in cutting meat consumption

Tesco chief executive pledged to ‘play part’ in cutting meat consumption

21 Nov 201908:55
Tesco chief executive Dave Lewis has pledged the supermarket will ‘play its part’ in cutting the meat consumption of UK shoppers.
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University slammed for ‘damaging’ decision to ban game shooting

University slammed for ‘damaging’ decision to ban game shooting

18 Nov 201904:00
Campaigners targeted the university in September, pushing the institute to ban the raising and shooting of pheasants and partridges on its land.
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Anger at decision to appoint part-time GCA as calls to extend remit grow louder

Anger at decision to appoint part-time GCA as calls to extend remit grow louder

13 Nov 201909:00
Farm groups have expressed their anger at a Government decision to appoint a new Groceries Code Adjudicator (GCA) in a part-time capacity.
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EU carbon tax could lock UK farmers out of European market

EU carbon tax could lock UK farmers out of European market

12 Nov 201909:00
UK farmers could be locked out of the European market if the EU introduces a carbon tax to prevent high emission imports, a trade expert has warned.
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Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal could see NI farmers ‘cut out of GB market’

Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal could see NI farmers ‘cut out of GB market’

01 Nov 201911:22
Northern Irish farmers have expressed concerns that the Prime Minister’s new Brexit deal could see them ‘cut out of’ the Great British market, if the rest of the UK chooses to diverge from EU food production standards.
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NFU chiefs call for Red Tractor to become global marketing tool after Brexit

NFU chiefs call for Red Tractor to become global marketing tool after Brexit

10 Oct 201915:47
Two NFU board chairmen have called for Red Tractor to become a global marketing tool for UK produce after Brexit.
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Poultry keepers urged to ‘take action’ as migratory bird flu threat increases

Poultry keepers urged to ‘take action’ as migratory bird flu threat increases

08 Oct 201906:00
Poultry keepers have been urged to ‘take action now’ ahead of the looming winter threat of Avian Influenza.
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Sainsbury’s commits to 100 per cent free range eggs by April 2020

Sainsbury’s commits to 100 per cent free range eggs by April 2020

04 Oct 201911:12
Sainsbury’s will become the first major UK retailer to move to 100 per cent free range eggs, with all eggs sold in store and online to be sourced from free range UK farms from April 2020.
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Traffic chaos as thousands of Dutch farmers protest over emissions claims

Traffic chaos as thousands of Dutch farmers protest over emissions claims

02 Oct 201914:29
Dutch farmers have caused traffic chaos with over 1,000km of traffic jams as they descended on The Hague in protests.
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Villiers faces farmer anger over lack of change to no-deal tariff schedule

Villiers faces farmer anger over lack of change to no-deal tariff schedule

01 Oct 201913:00
Defra Secretary Theresa Villiers has been confronted with stinging criticism after she admitted there would be very little change to the no-deal tariff schedule put together by Theresa May’s Government.
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Tory plan to force farmers to send livestock to nearest abattoir branded ‘nonsense’

Tory plan to force farmers to send livestock to nearest abattoir branded ‘nonsense’

30 Sep 201913:16
A Conservative Party plan to force farmers to send their livestock to the nearest abattoir has been branded ‘nonsense’ by Countryside Alliance (CA) chief executive Tim Bonner.
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Labour edges closer to carbon footprint labelling on food products

Labour edges closer to carbon footprint labelling on food products

26 Sep 201909:00
The Labour Party is edging towards a policy of introducing carbon footprint labelling on food products.
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Vets deny Defra claim capacity is there to process food exports in no-deal Brexit

Vets deny Defra claim capacity is there to process food exports in no-deal Brexit

11 Sep 201910:11
The British Veterinary Association (BVA) has denied claims from Defra’s top civil servant that the industry is ‘confident’ enough vets will be in place to process food exports in a no-deal Brexit.
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New sexing technology to stop the culling of day-old male chicks

New sexing technology to stop the culling of day-old male chicks

02 Sep 201905:00
Ethical egg selection could prevent the slaughter of day-old male chicks following the introduction of sexing technology in Germany.
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