Farmers welcome export licence for slaughterhouse
FARMERS will be able to establish a better market for meat from older cows now that the slaughterhouse is licensed to export, they have said.
Environmental Health has confirmed that an export licence has finally been granted for the new facility, which opened in October 2013.
The move has come just in time for farmers – the Cull Cattle Compensation Scheme ended on 1 January.
Guernsey Farmers' Association president James Watts said the granting of the licence was the news that all had been waiting for.
'It's excellent,' he said.
'We now have every possible option available to us to market the beef.
'The Cull Cattle Compensation Scheme wasn't going to last forever, so appropriately now that will end.
'It is good that they have managed to coordinate that with the issuing of the licence.'
