Under the motto “Our agriculture is colorful”, the Westphalian-Lippian Agricultural Association as a professional representative and the cooperative companies AGRAVIS Raiffeisen AG and Westfleisch SCE are sending a clear signal for the free democratic basic order and against any form of extremism and populism...
The previously four-stage husbandry type labeling will become five-stage this year. The fourth level will be divided and the labeling will be supplemented by a separate fifth level for organic programs. As before, conventional animal welfare programs are classified by the sponsoring company in the fourth level. In addition, the five levels each receive new names that correspond to those of the mandatory state animal husbandry labeling. These changes will come into force for all areas of husbandry in summer 2024...
The AVO Master Club is celebrating its birthday! The spice specialists’ popular customer magazine, “AVO Meisterclub Aktuell (AMCA for short),” is 40 years old this year. When the first issue appeared in 1984, it was not yet foreseeable that the magazine would become an integral part of AVO's field service equipment and popular reading material in butcher shops all over Germany...
The independent testing institute of the German Agricultural Society (DLG) has once again tested numerous meat products as part of its annual quality inspection. The result: Kaufland received a total of 138 gold and 39 silver awards for the quality of its own-produced meat products...
“Over the past year, Extrawurst was clearly able to defy the negative trend in the catering industry that was complained about in many places,” says Kim Hagebaum, managing director of the EXTRAWURST franchise system, which is present at 26 locations nationwide. With a growth rate of almost 20 percent, the family business based in Schalksmühle (Sauerland), which has been expanding in franchising since 2007, is reporting a record figure that has not yet been reached...
The federal cabinet approved the federal government's nutrition strategy last week. The strategy entitled “Good Food for Germany” was developed by the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL). It brings together around 90 planned and existing nutritional policy measures with the aim of making good food easier for everyone in Germany. With this strategy, the BMEL is fulfilling a mandate from the coalition agreement and society...
From February 13th to 16th, 2024, 2.550 international exhibitors from 94 countries will present their extensive product repertoire at BIOFACH, the world's leading trade fair for organic food, 150 of them at VIVANESS, the international trade fair for natural cosmetics. In Nuremberg, participants experience the organic community in action along the entire value chain. Hot topics are discussed in the exhibition halls as well as in the two congresses...
Despite distortions in the market, the Bell Food Group also achieved pleasing results in the 2023 financial year. “Our business model has once again proven itself to be a guarantee of stability,” says CEO Lorenz Wyss. All business areas contributed to the positive result...
The Tönnies group of companies is taking over two locations of the Vion Food Group. Subject to antitrust review, the Altenburg cattle site and the ham processing company Ahlener Fleischhandel are to be transferred to the corporate group...
The husbandry system has collected figures that document the distribution of the product range in the four levels for the different animal species. These figures are based on actual sales volumes throughout the year. Accordingly, despite the pandemic and economic challenges, there is a clear shift, for example, in pork products from level 1 (7,1 percent) to level 2 (84,9 percent) - i.e. products from the Animal Welfare Initiative (ITW) program. In 2021, the quantities of pork sold were still distributed at 22 percent in level 1 and 68 percent in level 2 on the self-service shelves...
The Minister of Agriculture Özdemir is planning a new meat tax, which will relieve the burden on farmers and, above all, convert their stables for fairer animal husbandry. The money is to be paid by the consumer through the so-called “Animal Welfare Cent”. But his predecessor, Julia Klöckner (CDU), already had this idea 4 years ago...