New environment minister is in ‘listening mode’
Food and farming will remain central to her brief, Jane Kennedy, minister of state at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA),...
Archives for November 3, 2008
Laverstoke Park expands into curing and bottling
Expansion continues at Hampshire-based Laverstoke Park’s organic farm with the opening of a new smoke curing facility and the start of its buffalo...
Curry calls on policy makers to back UK farming
Sir Don Curry, chairman of the government’s Sustainable Farming and Food Implementation Group, has backed the growing band of experts calling for...
Falling pound drives UK food exports
Food exporters are benefiting from the sliding value of the pound, according to Food from Britain (FFB), the organisation which works with UK food...
Shadow agriculture minister warns of legislative disaster
Over-regulation is threatening the very survival of the UK’s food and drink industry, Conservative shadow agriculture minister Jim Paice warned...