Turning sour: the need to reform the dairy industry

The continuing demise of dairy farms in the United Kingdom is a situation we can no longer ignore, says Dr Daniel Poulter. The declining number of British dairy units is due to rising fuel and other input costs, coupled with a lower per-litre price paid for liquid milk. Despite the outstanding animal-welfare standards that British [...]

Shoppers having their effect on welfare in pig industry

PIG welfare is increasingly important to shoppers, the RSPCA is claiming. Its food-certification arm has announced an increase in sales of pork and pork products with the Freedom Food label for the second year running. Sales in 2010 were 62 per cent higher than in 2009, meaning 400,000 more pigs got the extra space and [...]

Opportunity knocks for UK dairy industry

UK milk production could reach 15bn litres by 2020, an expansion of 13% on 2010. Current supply chain iniquities should not mask the opportunities that this offers, says Kite Consulting in its discussion document World Class Dairying – A vision for 2020. Produced in response to the Dairy 2020 initiative, the paper describes an industry [...]