Food trends

Siamsa Sessions

Hi all,

Anyone know where you can find some hard facts on people’s food choices over the past few years?

I’m thinking the likes of CSO or EuroStat maybe.

I see loads of people trying to build a market for beef, lamb, and even milk by selling their natural, sustainable, ecological story.

It sounds great and we buy local and wholesome here for the family. We should all be doing it and I’m not saying all other farms are doing something wrong for a second. I’m a bog-standard sheep farmer myself.

I’m just wondering how much of a market is there for such story-based produce? Especially when you see the gap closing between dairy-beef and the traditional higher end of beef?

Are such niche markets likely to grow or will they remain niche?

ganmo

https://www.bordbia.ie/industry/manufacturers/insight/publications/bbreports/pages/marketingreports.aspx

the supermarkets would have the info you're lookin for but won't let it out i'd say

Siamsa Sessions

ganmo wrote: »

https://www.bordbia.ie/industry/manufacturers/insight/publications/bbreports/pages/marketingreports.aspx

the supermarkets would have the info you're lookin for but won't let it out i'd say

Thanks for the link. I'll have a proper look this evening. Coincidently, I saw this on Twitter earlier: https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/bord-bia-to-host-farmers-market-workshops/

To back up its reasons for hosting the workshop, it says, "A recent study by Bord Bia, into Irish and British consumers and their food – Bord Bia Periscope, 2017 – found that buying local is important to over two thirds of consumers in the Republic of Ireland."

It's one thing to say "buying local is important" but it's a very different thing to back that up and actually buy local, especially if it cost a few Euro more.

What would be more useful is a survey or stats that show what people really spend food money on rather than what they'd like to spend it on.