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Helping develop Michaelmas goose market
An ‘easy start’ scheme to help goose producers take advantage of the Michaelmas
market without needing to process small numbers of birds is being launched by
Norfolk Geese in partnership with Gulliver Geese.
Producers will be able to order finished geese to be reared and processed by the
partnership, Norfolk Goose Breeders, and then market them in their own locality
to develop Michaelmas sales.
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Bad for many.... but good for the
Christmas goose
The wet summer may have been bad news for many people ….but it’s been great for
Christmas geese, according to Judy Goodman, chairman of British Goose Producers.
In contrast to 2006 when heatwave weather dried up early summer grazing, the
geese this year have enjoyed plenty of lush pasture and are looking in peak condition
around the country.
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Investing in future of the Christmas goose
With the resurgence in demand, Devon farmers Brenda and Nigel Tucker are
producing around 500 geese for Christmas for the first time.
Each year they have gradually increased the numbers and with growing confidence
in the future of the festive goose are now investing in enlarged refrigerated facilities
for holding geese in a chilled environment in the 10 to14 days before Christmas.
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Winers of gose entrant sponsorship
Norfolk farmers, Martin and Rosemary Jensen, are the 2007 winners of the
John Adlard Memorial Sponsorship aimed at helping get new entrants to goose
production off to a flying start.
Their success was announced at the annual farm walk of British Goose Producers,
hosted by Norfolk Geese which instigated the award last year in memory of the
group's founder chairman John Adlard.
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A very special - and prolonged - Michaelmas for the goose
The early autumn festival of Michaelmas takes on a special meaning this year for
goose producers across the country — and equally for discerning diners.
Michaelmas Day was traditionally celebrated on September 29. It was one of the
quarter days when tenant farmers paid their rent and according to custom a
goose for the landlord would help dissuade him from putting up the rent.
As a prelude to Michaelmas London’s oldest and favourite privately owned
five-star hotel, The Goring, held a tasting of five geese from different regions.
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Our chairman now FRAgs
Judy Goodman, chairman of British Goose Producers, has been awarded
a Fellowship of the Royal Agricultural Society. She was presented with
the certificate by the Countess of Wessex at the Royal Show, Stoneleigh.
At the event Judy was praised for her passion for the goose -- even
referred to as ‘Mother Goose’ -- and for all the seasonal foods she
produces from asparagus to bronze turkeys.
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Silver anniversary for British Goose Producers
Goose producers are planning to make 2007 a special year — celebrating the 25th
anniversary of the formation of their own association.
During a period when goose production was dwindling away in the early 1980s
an informal gathering of farmers at Crick, chaired by the late John Adlard, led
to the setting up of the organisation which is now British Goose Producers,
part of the British Poultry Council.
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New goose recipe leaflet:
Try 'parsnip pennies' this year
New ideas for sauces and stuffings to serve with the traditional goose
are provided in the latest recipe leaflet from British Goose Producers.
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Minister visits member's farm
Environment Secretary David Miliband chose a visit to Bedfordshire — including
British Goose Producers council member Franklins of Thorncote — to announce
an increase in wild bird surveillance for signs of avian influenza.
More than 300 nature reserves, parks and reservoirs are being added to the list
of sites owned by wildlife groups, local authorities and private companies which
will be patrolled by their staff who will report dead water birds to Defra.
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Two share new goose entrant sponsorship
Two newcomers to goose production — Judith Dryden in County Durham and
John Arwel Jones in Wales — are the inaugural winners of the John Adlard
Memorial Sponsorship.
The scheme was launched by Norfolk Geese in memory of its founder John Adlard,
who was also chairman of the British Goose Producers from its beginning in 1983
until his death in August 2005. It is aimed at new entrants to the goose industry
to help get them off to a flying start.
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Goose producers look ahead to Christmas
The widening appeal of geese will be the focus of attention when goose producers from all around the UK
and Ireland converge on the Symingtons’ farm in Leicestershire for the annual farm walk of British Goose
Producers on Wednesday October 18.
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Michaelmas is coming....the goose is getting....
Last Christmas goose was a sell-out across most of the country as the popularity
of the alternative festive choice grew to its highest level in the past 40 years.
But Christmas is not the only occasion associated with the goose.
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New chairman for goose producers
Worcestershire farmer Judy Goodman has been elected chairman of the British
Goose Producers to succeed its founder chairman John Adlard who died in the
summer of 2005.
Mrs Goodman, who has served as vice chairman for 15 years, is one of the
country’s leading goose producers and recently won a bronze award in the
seasonal category of the Taste of Britain Awards sponsored by the Daily
Telegraph and Sainsbury’s.
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