PACKINGTON FREE RANGE WINS HIGH PROFILE WELFARE AWARDS

Packington Free Range, the Staffordshire-based free range pig and poultry farmers, have won two prestigious awards at this year’s 2011 Good Farm Animal Welfare Awards.

The Leadership Award in Pig Welfare and the Good Chicken Award, were presented to the farm’s joint managing director Robert Mercer at a ceremony held at the Union Grand Lodge in London on 6 July.