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£3m fund announced for new and mobile abattoirs

Defra is set to provide £3 million to support the creation of new and mobile abattoirs in England through the... View Article

Applications open for new £4 million fund to support smaller abattoirs

The Smaller Abattoir Fund has been launched today to provide grants to smaller red meat and poultry abattoirs in England.... View Article

Government Has Listened But…

ASG is very pleased with the announcement of a £4m fund for small abattoirs from the Government this week.  Before... View Article

Abattoir User Survey Results: Abattoir closures are impacting farming and food businesses across the UK.

“A survey of more than 1,300 farming and food businesses across the UK has found that local abattoirs are a vital... View Article

Minister Announces Funding for Small Abattoirs

The Abattoir Sector Group welcomes the news this week that funding will be made available to the small abattoir sector.... View Article

Abattoir user survey

  Please note this survey has now closed, thank you to all those that took the time to complete it.... View Article

The loss of valuable small abattoirs continues….

It has been announced today that Mettricks abattoir is closing, this is another blow to the small abattoir industry at... View Article

Small Abattoirs Funding Potential

At the Oxford Farming Conference. John Powell from the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs stated that they are... View Article

Brexit fails to deliver for small abattoirs

The Farmer’s Guardian have published an article this week setting out the view that the EU rules imposed over many... View Article

ASG Chair on Countryfile

BBC Countryfile ran a fairly long piece about the pig crisis on Sunday and this included a segment on the... View Article

ASG Welcomes Parliamentary Report

The Abattoir Sector Group (ASG) welcomes the Efracom report ‘Moving animals across borders’ endorsing that a network of small and... View Article

ASG Member makes short film on running a small abattoir

National Craft Butcher Abattoir Survey

National Craft Butchers has launched an Abattoir Survey and is hoping to receive responses from Small and Medium Abattoirs throughout... View Article

Consumers Turn to Local Food

New research from the Food Standards Agency (FSA) identifies a shift in consumer diets during the COVID-19 pandemic to more... View Article

Government Aim To Reduce Animal Transport

Plans to ban the export of live animals for slaughter and fattening were unveiled last year by the Environment Secretary... View Article

The Agricultural Act & Small Abattoirs

At the end of last year we saw the long debated Agricultural Bill become an Act. The Agriculture Act sets... View Article