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Great British Beef Week – Jilly Greed: "We are now seeing farmgate prices that encourage investment"

Ms Greed, cofounder of Great British Beef Week and Ladies in Beef, shares her thoughts on the current state of the UK beef industry in the GBBW campaign's 15th year

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Jilly Greed

I wonder if we might be on the cusp of a small renaissance in British Beef production. After two decades of low profitability, often producing below the cost of production, we are now seeing farmgate prices...

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