Showing posts with label Food production. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Food production. Show all posts

Sunday, 5 March 2023

High Rise Pigs

This article in a recent Guardian newspaper describes the move towards intensive pig production in China which has resulted in a multi-storey pig farm.

This is partly driven by the huge demand for pork in China, which consumes almost half the world's pork, with a high per capita consuption.

This is just one of many food related stories that we are exploring at the moment. 

More to come over the next week or so when I share a few bits I've made.

Wednesday, 3 October 2018

UK has cheap food ... for how much longer

An interesting BBC News article which comes with a range of  useful statistics and other commentary on some of the reasons why the UK currently enjoys the cheapest food prices in Western Europe: a combination of human and physical geography one could argue..

Monday, 23 May 2016

Cornerways Nursery

Britain's largest greenhouse, that produces 10% of the UK's tomatoes, and just up the road from us, in Wissington...



Also features in a Wideworld article.