2008

December

Oct 21 2008 – NFU Responds To Tesco Reports- NFU Online
Oct 20 2008 – Suppliers accuse Tesco of making ‘aggressive’ demands – Sunday Times
Oct 16 2008 – NFU urges Tesco not to milk suppliers amid price squeeze – The Scotsman
Oct 16 2008 – World wakes up to food challenge – BBC.co.uk
Oct 08 2008 – Drought resistant GM crops ready ‘in four years’ – Guardian Unlimited
Oct 05 2008 – Breakthrough in genetic map of wheat: scientists – Physorg.Com
Oct 05 2008 – The harvest is over – Citywire
Oct 03 2008 – Cap shake-up call to focus on food output – The Press And Journal

Sep 25 2008 – Why agricultural law is challenging – The Law Gazette
Sep 24 2008 – Demand for biofuels to keep grain prices volatile and at inflated levels – FARMBUSSINESS.CC
Sep 22 2008 – Benn: Farmers can help bring down food prices – Talking Retail.Com
Sep 08 2008 – Washout summer threatens harvest disaster for farmers – The Independent
Sep 08 2008 – High cost of weekly shop to last a decade, warn producers – The Times Online
Sep 03 2008 – Farmers leave organic food trade BBC
Sep 01 2008 – Two relevant articles from the Financial Times

Aug 29 2008 – Shoppers lose their taste for organic food – The Guardian
Aug 27 2008 – It is a wet UK cereal harvest!
Aug 26 2008 – Tesco cashes in on taste for local food and drink – Times Online
Aug 26 2008 – Organic Egg Producer Price Slumps – The Poultry Site
Aug 21 2008 – Bread prices could rise as rain affects wheat harvest – The Telegraph
Aug 20 2008 – Poultry Meat Stories from www.thepoultrysite.com
Aug 20 2008 – Can we fix biofuels? – World Finance
Aug 18 2008 – Supermarkets debate goes to EU Parliament – Farming Life
Aug 17 2008 – Behind the headlines: GM food – Wales Online.co.uk
Aug 15 2008 – Sterling continues to lose ground – The BBC
Aug 15 2008 – Tesco discounts quarter of goods in supermarket price war – The Telegraph
Aug 13 2008 – Charles in GM ‘disaster’ warning – BBC
Aug 13 2008 – Death knell sounds for £2 chicken – FT.Com
Aug 05 2008 – A Dairy Compounder’s view of the organic sector
Aug 04 2008 – Organic food latest casualty of credit crunch – The Independent

Jun 27 2008 – Organic land management – The Economist print edition
Jun 27 2008 – Reconciling World markets & having a social conscience?
Jun 23 2008 – Scientists warn of lack of vital phosphorus as biofuels raise demand – The Times
Jun 23 2009 – The GM issue – Reuters/The Independent

Apr 26 2008 – Contaminated wheat blunder may lead to livestock slaughter under BSE rules – The Telegraph
Apr 24 2008 – Commodities boom drives up land values – FT
Apr 22 2008 – The Cost of Food and BioFuels
Apr 21 2008 – Exposed: the great GM crops myth – The Independent
Apr 17 2008 – Farm costs soar at ‘staggering’ rate – Eastern Daily Press
Apr 15 2008 – Funds race to pull out of commodities futures
Apr 09 2008 – Warning against US poultry imports into EU

Mar 31 2008 – Tensions rise as world faces short rations – Reuters
Mar 28 2008 – Only a radical change of diet can halt looming food crises – Rosie Boycott
Mar 26 2008 – Argentines take to streets as farm conflict deepens – Reuters
Mar 23 2008 – How the myth of food miles hurts the planet – The Guardian
Mar 20 2008 – Tesco takes ‘local’ chickens on 1,000 mile trip – The Telegraph
Mar 17 2008 – Sainsbury’s in £3m scandal over potato bungs – The Sunday Times
Mar 03 2008 – A farm’s fate in big egg debate – Lyme Regis News
Mar 03 2008 – Food articles in the weekend press

Feb 29 2008 – 1,726,400,000 free-range birds? Martin Samuel of the Times makes comments
Feb 27 2008 – Every little bit helps: tax-free pot of gold at end of Tesco’s rainbow – Guardian Unlimited
Feb 27 2008 – High food prices push China towards GMO – Reuters
Feb 25 2008 – Food shortages loom as wheat crop shrinks and prices rise – The Times
Feb 25 2008 – Supermarkets grab 90 per cent of milk profits – News Wales
Feb 19 2008 – Europe facing meat crisis over GM wrangle – The Times
Feb 18 2008 – Supermarkets – and the Competition Commission Report
Feb 15 2008 – Farm follies revisited – The Economist
Feb 10 2008 – Supermarket role for OFT – The Times
Feb 10 2008 – Bee Virus Could Wipe Out Mankind, Warn Scientists – Daily Record
Feb 08 2008 – SAVE OUR BACON – PIG FARMING IS FAST DISAPPEARING
Feb 07 2008 – Fertiliser famine threats to hit harvests – South Wales Echo
Feb 06 2008 – Tesco – pricing `strategies’ – The Independent
Feb 05 2008 – Bacon and Eggs May Provide as Many Omega 3´s as a Piece of Salmon – Nutritionhorizon.com
Feb 04 2008 – Poultry industry feels the squeeze – NFU Countryside
Feb 04 2008 – Farm incomes up by 8.7%, but ‘unbalanced’ says NFU

Jan 28 2008 – Retailers warned of shortages, unless prices rise soon
Jan 23 2008 – Chicken Sales Cheer Across the Board
Jan 21 2008 – 2 Interesting Articles from The Times
Jan 21 2008 – NFU rejects Commons call for a moratorium on biofuels
Jan 14 2008 – Biofuels ‘not a silver bullet’ warns Royal Society
Jan 10 2008 – No Reprieve For Battery Eggs
Jan 10 2008 – Don’t Abuse Red Diesel
Jan 07 2008 – Britain’s poultry producers fight back
Jan 04 2008 – UK wealthy enough not to worry unduly about food security
Jan 04 2008 – Grains lifted to highs as oil surges – FT
Jan 03 2008 – RSPCA urges shoppers to go for higher welfare chickens
Jan 01 2008 – Millions of pounds still available to help farmers and others go green