Trade association Dairy UK and the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board’s (AHDB’s) dairy division have spent £1.2m on a campaign to persuade millennials to stick with dairy.
Meat, dairy and alcohol helped drive UK food and drink exports to £10.6bn for the first half of the year, with the US, China and Hong Kong the main recipients.
A Scottish dairy processor is appealing a decision by Scottish ministers last month to refuse planning permission for a £20m dairy facility and housing development in Stirlingshire, which would have created up to 800 jobs.
Sales growth at Meadow Foods has led to finance group Exponent investing in the dairy processor in a deal that entails buying key investor Paine Schwartz’s full shareholding.
Reaseheath College’s John Sorsby explains how a strong connection with the dairy industry has developed into a broader ambition to be a centre for all food education.
Correct feeding from birth should be subject to a full government inquiry as part of its drive to tackle child obesity, the boss of the UK’s only producer of infant feed formula has claimed.
The rising popularity of dairy alternatives is challenging traditional dairy producers to protect their market share, but they are fighting back on a number of fronts.
Welsh dairy processor Tomlinson’s Dairies Ltd has been hit with a £200,000 fine, after a worker suffered “life-changing injuries” at one of its plants.
A Scottish cheesemaker implicated in a fatal E.coli 0157 outbreak in 2016 has welcomed a sheriff’s ruling that the company did not breach food safety regulations.
