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Pipers Farm Chickens

Saturday, March 20, 2010 at 12:57PM
Tags: cheap food, chickens, delicious recipes, food production, pipers, wholesome nutrition
Filed in: Pipers Farm Chicken, Recipes,

The EU has just brought in a new ceiling on maximum stocking density for industrial chickens grown within the EU. It is now set at 42kgs/sq.m. Â The current maximum for UK is 38k/sq.m. This is another illustration of how the process of industrialising food production shows little sign of slowing down. The principle is firmly established that food can continually be produced more cheaply.

But our customers are increasingly coming to realise that cheap food does not necessarily equate to value for money. Most chicken you can buy is acknowledged to be tasteless and without texture. Our chickens deliver eating pleasure, wholesome nutrition and good value measured by price per portion.

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Red Ruby Triumph!

Friday, December 11, 2009 at 09:53AM
Tags: beef producer, food production, native breed class, quality beef, red ruby ribs, ribs of beef, royal smithfield show
Filed in: General, Pipers Farm Beef, Awards,

This morning we have heard that our Red Ruby Ribs of Beef have won the Native breed class at The Royal Smithfield Show.

It was interesting that those Ribs were just taken from the carcases killed for that week, no special nurturing or pampering to win prizes - this is the quality of beef that our customers are buying every day of the year! Just like every other week, the cattle we killed were between 2 ½ and 3 years old. They had reached natural maturity through a very traditional system of farming which has evolved over the years to suit this part of the country. The calves are born up on Exmoor where their mothers make the most of the moorland grazing and vegetation, which is unsuitable for any other kind of food production. The young cattle then spend about 18 months on a wonderfully traditional Domesday farm at Athelney on the Somerset Levels, where no fertilizers are used, just the winter flood-waters which enrich the fertile pastures.

Quite a contrast to the overall winner - a typical product of the modern High Street!Â The same weight but a continental breed which was a full 12 months younger and would have been fed predominantly on imported cereals.

We know that not every beef producerÂ believes that what we do is right, but we feel as passionately as ever that the grasslands of the Westcountry, and especially those on the moors and levels, are the perfect place to grow "Meat the Natural Way", especially Red Ruby Beef!