The UK Dairy Roadmap has signed up to a global sustainability initiative on behalf of the UK dairy industry, saying it is pledging its commitment to global indicators of sustainability.
The UK dairy sector said it has made ‘significant progress’ in its efforts to reduce its environmental footprint, attendees were told at the launch of the Dairy Roadmap 10th anniversary report in the House of Commons.
This week, British Prime Minister Theresa May outlined some of the expectations of Brexit negotiations, expected to begin after the UK formally announces its intention to leave the EU this spring.
The UK dairy industry is open for business and ready to help build a stronger economy and better future, Dairy UK chairman, Dr David Dobbin, said at the Dairy UK annual dinner in London.
Dr David Dobbin, chairman of Dairy UK, speaking at the Semex conference in Glasgow, said the UK dairy industry needs to take control of its own destiny to meet domestic and international challenges successfully.
Another day, another food industry ‘vision document’ complete with funky cartoon cows. It seems that everyone is falling over themselves to get in on the act with such publications, especially in regard to everyone’s favourite food industry buzz word...
New guidelines will ensure that UK dairy processing companies benefit from a common approach to calculating carbon footprints across the whole supply chain.
EU agriculture ministers yesterday agreed on further measures designed to progressively liberalise the bloc’s dairy sector, but industry associations have said these will simply lead to more market distortion.
The UK dairy industry lacks strategic direction and investment, and
needs to find new ways of working as a unit to realise its strong
potential, says the National Farmers' Union in its long-awaited
report.
Several leading figures in the UK dairy sector have had an
industry-wide plan to lower salt levels in cheese approved by the
Food Standards Agency (FSA), but is this simply a token gesture to
appease healthy food campaigners, Tom...
