Well it's Winter Time again - hard to believe that we are now half way through the year! We would love to share what's been happening on the farm over the last few
months so sit back, relax and enjoy our news.
The weather has been a mixed Season for everyone throughout NZ. We have enjoyed some great weather since January (occasionally...) and some not so great weather as well.
Cattle in our cattle yards
This year we were at the Taieri Show in January for the first time. We have been delivering our meat now for over a year in Dunedin/Mosgiel with Free Delivery and we welcome all
our new and existing customers in these areas. The Show was an excellent day to demonstrate our product range and introduce customers to buying Quality Meat 'In Bulk' Direct from
the Farmer.
Congratulations to Carole Stevenson of Mosgiel who won the Lamb Pack in our Win A Lamb Pack Competition. We will be back again next year at the Taieri Show so mark your diaries for January and come and visit our
site if you are in the area.
We were in Wanaka in March at the Upper Clutha Show catching up with new and existing customers. We continue to be amazed at the great word of mouth advertisers that our customers
are, passing on our details to their friends and families - a huge thank you to everyone who does this for us.
Farmgate Meat's Mark, Bruce, Tim, Rachel, Paul & Luke at the Wanaka Show 2011
Congratulations to our 2 Winners of Win A Lamb Packs (picked from over 1000 entries!!) Robyn Mercer of Wanaka and David Cook of Ashburton
We were again in the NZ Beef and Lamb Glammies Competition as finalists with our Lamb which is held at the Upper Clutha Show. We were placed 4th in our section which is a great
achievement out of 16 Finalists. We had our meat showcased on the Friday on TV One Breakfast so that was exciting.
In November 2010 our Farm hosted ASDA Supermarket Chains head Meat Buyer as well as other representatives from Meat Companies throughout the UK. ASDA is one of the 4 large
Supermarket Chains. The purpose of their visit was to source NZ Lamb from Alliance Meat Company (who our Farm supplies a large portion of our lambs to) for the UK market. We enjoyed hosting them and giving them a farm tour. As a
result of this we were offered a trip to the UK sponsored by ASDA and Meat Companies to see how NZ Lamb ends up on the UK Supermarket Shelves from Farms all over NZ. As we type this we are sitting near Glasgow in Scotland enjoying a sunny
day (one of a few!!)
Rachel, Mark & a UK lamb buyer
Highlights of the trip include:
Visiting Abattoirs,
Tours of some massive Meat Packaging Plants,
Tours of Meat Sections of Supermarkets,
Understanding pricing structures,
Being made more aware of a huge
world shortage of lamb and beef products due to world
population increase,
Meeting the UK Consumer,
visiting the place our Farm is named after in Scotland ‘Glen Affric’
-------- oh and also watching the Barbarians beat the England Rugby Team at Twickenham!! (Some of the UK fans thought we were spying for the All Blacks Management Team)
A town in Wales - we couldn't pronounce this either!
Coming home inspired and motivated – that we do produce a World class product not only in our eyes but also the Marketers and the Consumers in the UK. This encourages us knowing
that we are looking after you our Farmgate Meats Customers the best we can by producing great meat from our Farm direct to you.
For our Customers convenience we have updated our Website now to include our next delivery dates in our Free Delivery Areas. These dates are updated after each delivery trip so if
you are wanting to know when we are next in your Free Delivery Area, just pop onto our Website and have a look at the Banner at the top.
Trust that you have enjoyed our update and we look forward to catching up in the near future.
Regards,
The Farmgate Meats Team
