Today is: Thursday 17 May 2012 21:41:55
Organic
Both the Soil Association and Organic Farmers & Growers are looking for reasons to be cheerful in the coming year, despite the continuing decline of organic egg sales over the last 12 months.
Figures compiled by Kantar Worldpanel show that the market for organic eggs fell by nearly 12 per cent in the year to the end of October 2011. However, the...
Stonegate is taking steps to cut the number of organic birds on its books because of continuing difficulties in the organic egg market. We reported last month that Noble, the country’s biggest egg packing company, was looking to switch another 80,000 organic layers over to free range production because of a further decline in sales of orga...
A new marketing campaign is to be launched to promote organic, following further evidence that eggs and other parts of the organic poultry sector are suffering particularly badly during the recession. Members of the organic industry in the United Kingdom are joining forces to help finance a three-year campaign. With the help of support from an E...
The organic sector should seek to reverse a decision permitting the use of fishmeal in organic pig and poultry diets and repudiate exploitative fishing practices that threaten marine diversity. Further, the reclassification of fish as a 'non-agricultural ingredient' will pull the organic content of some rations to below 90%, making a mo...
There was a mood of optimism at an organic conference in Scotland this month despite recent statistics showing a fall in the volume of organic sales. The conference was organised by John Retson of JSR Services in conjunction with Lohmann GB. John rears more than 100,000 organic pullets each year – all of them Lohmann – along with a number of com...
BFREPA have recently welcomed Sir Richard Sutton's Settled Estates into membership. The new organic egg unit is based on his estate near Newbury, which comprises 6,500 acres of mixed arable, grass and woodland that supports in addition to hens, a single suckler beef herd and sheep. Like all farmers, whether large or small, the estate has had ...
During 2008, the financial problems that we are and will be facing have led to a reduction in the sales of organic eggs. Fortunately for the free range egg industry, those who have been purchasing organic eggs seem to be deciding that the perceived welfare advantage of free range egg production is one of the key factors in their decision making. ...
An idea to ease the pressure on struggling organic producers has been floated in a consultation document prepared by Organic Farmers and Growers, the Soil Association and other organic certification bodies. Eggs have been hit particularly badly by a fall in organic sales this year. One newspaper reported that organic egg sales were down by a...
Given the headlines of recent weeks, producers could be forgiven for thinking that the organic egg market is in meltdown. National newspapers and television news programmes have seized upon figures showing a fall in sales of organic food - one newspaper reported that organic egg sales were down by as much as 18 per cent compared with a year ago. ...
Twenty feet up in the trees is not where you’d normally look for point-of-lay pullets. But that’s where at least some of Ben and Cathy Wetherden’s birds can be found! It’s indicative of the birds’ health and vitality, they believe. As Britain’s largest independent organic pullet producers they consider this ...
Organic price rises have done nothing to lift the gloom that now hangs over the future of the sector. As reports grow of producers planning to abandon organic status one has told the Ranger that he has already slashed his flock numbers by nearly half. The latest price rise lifted producer prices by just short of 7p a dozen on a weighted avera...
Hard-pressed organic producers who have had to absorb unprecedented hikes in feed costs are finally in line for an egg price increase. The development comes on the back of a lift at retail level which has seen the shelf price of a dozen organic eggs increase by up to 30 pence. Tesco made the first move, increasing the cost of 12 medium eggs f...
Organic feed costs have rocketed to a record high of £300 a ton leaving producers facing a major financial crisis. They are telling packers that they need a price increase on eggs of at least 10p per dozen in order to survive in the sector. Richard Barton, part of the family that operates the major Grassington Rangers laying and rearing ente...
Organic producers could face losing their certification status within eight weeks unless action is taken to avert the sector's feed crisis. That is the view of some leading figures in the feed industry. But others in the sector—including Defra officials—appear unconvinced that the situation is so critical. If no feed is available producers ...
The organic egg sector is under threat from a major crisis in the supply of feed ingredients. Producers have been warned that reserves of organic wheat could begin to run out in January or February. Already feed formulations are being regularly altered to cope with shortages. But the certification body Organic Farmers & Growers (OF&G), which ...
Stonegate is taking steps to cut the number of organic birds on its books because of continuing difficulties in the organic egg market. We reported last month that Noble, the country’s biggest egg packing company, was looking to switch another 80,000 organic layers over to free range production because of a further decline in sales of orga...
A new marketing campaign is to be launched to promote organic, following further evidence that eggs and other parts of the organic poultry sector are suffering particularly badly during the recession. Members of the organic industry in the United Kingdom are joining forces to help finance a three-year campaign. With the help of support from an E...
The organic sector should seek to reverse a decision permitting the use of fishmeal in organic pig and poultry diets and repudiate exploitative fishing practices that threaten marine diversity. Further, the reclassification of fish as a 'non-agricultural ingredient' will pull the organic content of some rations to below 90%, making a mo...
There was a mood of optimism at an organic conference in Scotland this month despite recent statistics showing a fall in the volume of organic sales. The conference was organised by John Retson of JSR Services in conjunction with Lohmann GB. John rears more than 100,000 organic pullets each year – all of them Lohmann – along with a number of com...
BFREPA have recently welcomed Sir Richard Sutton's Settled Estates into membership. The new organic egg unit is based on his estate near Newbury, which comprises 6,500 acres of mixed arable, grass and woodland that supports in addition to hens, a single suckler beef herd and sheep. Like all farmers, whether large or small, the estate has had ...
During 2008, the financial problems that we are and will be facing have led to a reduction in the sales of organic eggs. Fortunately for the free range egg industry, those who have been purchasing organic eggs seem to be deciding that the perceived welfare advantage of free range egg production is one of the key factors in their decision making. ...
An idea to ease the pressure on struggling organic producers has been floated in a consultation document prepared by Organic Farmers and Growers, the Soil Association and other organic certification bodies. Eggs have been hit particularly badly by a fall in organic sales this year. One newspaper reported that organic egg sales were down by a...
Given the headlines of recent weeks, producers could be forgiven for thinking that the organic egg market is in meltdown. National newspapers and television news programmes have seized upon figures showing a fall in sales of organic food - one newspaper reported that organic egg sales were down by as much as 18 per cent compared with a year ago. ...
Twenty feet up in the trees is not where you’d normally look for point-of-lay pullets. But that’s where at least some of Ben and Cathy Wetherden’s birds can be found! It’s indicative of the birds’ health and vitality, they believe. As Britain’s largest independent organic pullet producers they consider this ...
Organic price rises have done nothing to lift the gloom that now hangs over the future of the sector. As reports grow of producers planning to abandon organic status one has told the Ranger that he has already slashed his flock numbers by nearly half. The latest price rise lifted producer prices by just short of 7p a dozen on a weighted avera...
Hard-pressed organic producers who have had to absorb unprecedented hikes in feed costs are finally in line for an egg price increase. The development comes on the back of a lift at retail level which has seen the shelf price of a dozen organic eggs increase by up to 30 pence. Tesco made the first move, increasing the cost of 12 medium eggs f...
Organic feed costs have rocketed to a record high of £300 a ton leaving producers facing a major financial crisis. They are telling packers that they need a price increase on eggs of at least 10p per dozen in order to survive in the sector. Richard Barton, part of the family that operates the major Grassington Rangers laying and rearing ente...
Organic producers could face losing their certification status within eight weeks unless action is taken to avert the sector's feed crisis. That is the view of some leading figures in the feed industry. But others in the sector—including Defra officials—appear unconvinced that the situation is so critical. If no feed is available producers ...
The organic egg sector is under threat from a major crisis in the supply of feed ingredients. Producers have been warned that reserves of organic wheat could begin to run out in January or February. Already feed formulations are being regularly altered to cope with shortages. But the certification body Organic Farmers & Growers (OF&G), which ...
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