New Year Lunch
The 2025 New Year Lunch panel session addressed “The Future of Red Meat” during a well-attended annual event in Edinburgh on January 10. Panel members (pictured below) fielded a wide range of questions from SAMW members and guests with a key focus placed on this year’s projected livestock supplies and the urgent need arrest the continuing decline in numbers.

NYL panel: (l-r) Roisin Turner, Group Commercial Manager, Stoddart’s; John Sleigh, Editor, Scottish Farmer; Andrew Niven, Strategic Market Intelligence Manager, Scotland Food & Drink; and Orla Sherry, Kepak Technical Director, Meat Division UK.