Quality Meat Scotland is encouraging farmers to continue engaging and sharing the positive conversations around Scotland’s red meat industry, with recent data from Kantar, analysed by QMS, revealing that 912,000 more retail meat purchases were made in Scotland in the four weeks to 24 January 2021 vs the same period last year. Data from Kantar for January 2021 shows meat sales in Scotland exceeded £31.6million, £7million higher (29%) than the same period last year. In comparison, with less than 1% of the UK population participating in Veganuary and a completion rate of 18%, total sales of meat substitute purchases in Scotland in January 2021 only saw a 7.6% increase compared to 2020.
QMS is encouraging farmers to support apprenticeship programmes
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By Neil Wilson, executive director, Institute of Auctioneers and Appraisers in Scotland (IAAS) With vaccination under way there is light at the end of the Covid tunnel, and although Brexit issues remain very much live, we are working hard to get sensible trade going again for our customers and members, One problem that isn’t going anywhere though, is climate change. For an industry that is based entirely on natural resources and the weather, it is essential that we fully acknowledge this threat and now approach it with the urgency it deserves. It is both our responsibility to do so, and critical to our, and future generations’, survival.
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Scottish farm leaders have been left sickened by the “barbaric” professional butchering of a young sheep in a field in Ayrshire.
A farmer was left horrified after a one-year-old Texel ewe was killed in a field in Stewarton sometime between 8am on Saturday 6 February and 1pm on Tuesday 9 February.
Police believe the sheep, which weighed around 70kg and was valued at £250, was professionally butchered for its meat. They have appealed to farmers and the public for help to catch those responsible.
NFU Scotland (NFUS) said the illegal killing was “deeply distressing” and the butchers knew exactly what they were doing.