Retailing boosts dairy income

News  |  www.fwi.co.uk | Oct 5, 2008

A Northumberland family's venture into milk retailing has successfully focused its marketing on the image of its pedigree Dairy Shorthorn and Ayrshire cattle - but moving into direct selling has meant a substantial capital investment and working days that can start as early as 2.30am.

http://www.fwi.co.uk/Articles/2008/10/05/112453/retailing-boosts-dairy-income.html

Butchers Clamour for Skipton Prime Cattle and Lamb Champions

News  |  feeds.feedburner.com | Sep 3, 2008

Well-supported opening September shows for prime cattle and lambs at Skipton Auction Mart saw all three champions purchased by West Yorkshire butchers.

http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/StackyardNews/~3/382225586/03_prime_shows.html

Local Food Heroes award for Peelham Farm - Berwickshire Today

News  |  www.berwickshire-news.co.uk | Aug 29, 2008

Local Food Heroes award for Peelham Farm - BBC Countryfile Magazine is celebrating the first ever Local Food Hero Awards this coming month and included in the list of 20 heroes is Peelham Farm, near Foulden.

http://www.berwickshire-news.co.uk/news/Local-Food-Heroes-award-for.4432435.jp

Wild boar venture aims for top end of the market

News  |  www.farmersguardian.com | Aug 28, 2008

Despite their dangerous demeanour, a passion for pigs led farmer Simon Gaskell to establish his own wild boar business. William Surman meets the man, and the beasts, behind the Real Boar Company.

http://www.farmersguardian.com/story.asp?sectioncode=33&storycode=20928&c=1

Farm shop’s cutting food miles and supporting the local economy - ic Wales

News  |  icwales.icnetwork.co.uk | Mar 25, 2008

GROWING consumer demand for quality local produce persuaded Andy and Debbie Eastwood to swap their jobs in Oxfordshire for a small farm and farm shop in Pembrokeshire.

http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/countryside-farming-news/countryside-news/2008/03/25/farm-shop-s-cutting-food-miles-and-supporting-the-local-economy-91466-20667641/

BPEX Agrees £125,000 in Grants

UK - Grants of more than £125,000 have been won by a range of companies seeking the improve the supply chain for British pork. There were 11 firms vying for money from the British Pig Executive (BPEX) Supply Chain Grant Scheme and seven were successful.

http://www.thepigsite.com/swinenews/10006/bpex-agrees-125000-in-grants

A taste of Yorkshire at Beningbrough Hall and Gardens

Celebrate the real taste of Yorkshire at the Food and Craft Festival at the National Trust’s Beningbrough Hall and Gardens with a series of free displays from local food to wood sculpture created with a chainsaw.

http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/cymraeg/lo/w-global/w-localtoyou/w-yorkshire_ne/w-yorkshire_ne-news/w-yorkshire_ne-news-story_a_taste_of_yorkshire_at_beningbrough.htm

'Chive and cheddar' scores another win - Meat News & Industry Knowledge - Meatinfo.co.uk

A previous Champion of Champions winner has scooped another award for the same sausage recipe. Simon Haigh of Hinchliffe's Farm Shop in Huddersfield won the BPEX foodservice Sausage of the Year award, held at Butcher's Hall in London last month, with his pork, mature Cheddar and chive sausage.

http://www.meatinfo.co.uk/articles/53084/'Chive-and-cheddar'-scores-another-win.aspx

Countryside Alliance - The UK Best Rural Retailers are..

A Yorkshire buffalo farmer, a marathon-running village shopkeeper from Northumberland, an Oxfordshire farmer- cum-teacher and a Greater Manchester gents’ outfitters have been named as the nation’s top rural retailers.

http://www.countryside-alliance.org.uk/index2.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3416&pop=1&page=0&Itemid=571

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