The Farmers Mart Aug/Sep 2014 - Issue 35 | Page 6

FARM NEWS SAUSAGE SUCCESS FOR YORKSHIRE DALES MEAT COMPANY! The Yorkshire Dales Meat Company outshone its catering butcher competitors in a public vote for the best sausage at The Camp Hill Estate Beer and Sausage Festival recently, attended by former Foreign Secretary and current MP for Richmond, William Hague. Yorkshire Dales Meat Company’s Caramelised Red Onion sausages finished second in the overall entirely independent public vote won by celebrated Bedale High Street butcher and sausage maker, Cockburn’s. In finishing second, Yorkshire Dales Meat Company beat off competition from much fancied catering butcher rivals that had gone to great lengths to talk up their chances beforehand. James Knox, Finance Director at Yorkshire Dales Meat Company, said: “We knew we had a really good sausage but we entered the competition to benchmark ourselves against other sausagemakers and without any expectation of winning. “So, to finish ahead of all our catering butcher competitors, in a public vote, was absolutely fantastic, and gives us even greater confidence in our products. “There’s no reason why we can’t improve our sausages G021202KX 144x210 Half Bleed_G021202KX 21/05/2014 16:12 Page 1 still further and become outright winners in this and other competitions in the future.” Yorkshire Dales Meat Company supplies a wide range of sausages - from traditional pork to chilli, and from wild boar to Swaledale rings - to restaurants, hotels, caterers, event venues and cafés across the North of England. Such was the demand for Yorkshire Dales Meat Company’s sausages and burgers that sales of those products shot up 150% during the Tour de France. Based on its own farm in Wensleydale - where the Knox Family, which owns and gs with every Free Sila-Ba ® 00 sheet Sila-Cover 3 of October until the end protection for grass and maize silage runs the business, has been farming for more than 100 years - Yorkshire Dales Meat Company prides itself on only sourcing meat from suppliers that share its commitment to the highest standard in food provenance. www.yorkshiredalesmeat. co.uk • Heavy duty 300g/m2 • Woven polyethylene with hemmed edges • 10 year guarantee • Easy handling, saving time • NO MORE TYRES! • Reduces spoilage and improves compaction • Protects polythene under-sheet • Bag fixing loops as standard Tel: 01531 637900 www.galebreaker.com 6 Aug/Sep 2014 FarmersMart To read more, visit www.farmers-mart.co.uk