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Easter egg scoffing...for charity
When punters from one pub in Hartlepool fall FOWL on the high seas they won't CRACK up because they know there will be a GRADE A rescue service on hand after their EGG-cellent fundraising*. The Cosmopolitan, on Hartlepool's headland,...
World Poultry - Weblog: The future of ready meals in Europe
A common complaint heard all over the world today:
From eggs to Oscars: BEIC ad man awarded for The King's Speech
The King's Speech has been making a splash over the last few months, at the box office and within the Academy Awards committee, taking home a shedload of Oscars. But director Tom Hooper, who won the Oscar for Best Director,...
Colony eggs...of a sort
The Rock of Gibraltar and six British eggs. UK producers might fear the influx of European eggs come the 2012 cage-ban but there's one corner of Europe where British is definitely still best. 1,400 miles from the UK on the...
Polish eggs on sale in UK!
Farmers and industry experts have all expressed concerns the UK egg market may be undercut by cheap Eastern European eggs come the 2012 conventional cage-ban but PW's sleuths can reveal Polish eggs are ALREADY on sale in the UK...albeit in...
Red mites - a
BusinessBlog.jpg Red mites - a "gruesome orgie of blood" By Philip Clarke on May 13, 2010 5:24 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks Continuing the "learning curve" theme of my last blog posting, earlier this week I received "chapter and verse" on the egg laying industry's number one pest - red mites. I
Free range eggs in danger of being overcooked
If someone had told me that Wales was the number one producer of free-range eggs in Europe, I would not have believed them.
Recent fraud cases cast shadow on egg sector
Egg suppliers are in danger of being tarred with the same brush as politicians, following a number of high profile cases of fraud and corruption.
Egg producers in a flap about unfair imports
Concerns about the threat from imports of eggs from hens kept in conventional cages were very much in evidence at this week's NFU annual conference.
Poultry businesses losing £118,000 a year (Food for Thought)
It makes bleak reading. By January next year, the average free range egg producer will be losing a whopping £27,000/year. It’s even higher for broiler units, at over £118,000. This prediction came from new figures recently outlined by NFU poultry...
