Packington Free Range

Packington Free Range is celebrating their third award this year after winning a coveted “Special Award for Commitment to Continued Improvement” at this month’s high profile 2011 Good Food Awards, organised by Taste of Staffordshire.

Owners and brothers Rob and Alec Mercer collected the surprise award at the ceremony held at the Staffordshire County Showground, on Tuesday evening.  The awards recognise quality, excellence and the use of local produce in the county’s food and drink industry. 

“Winning a special award like this was fantastic.  We had just wanted to be part of the audience so it was a real surprise when we heard our names called.  To get recognised by others for what you do is just brilliant and confirms that we are on the right tracks, so genuinely we are really pleased and very proud to have this award,”  says Alec Mercer... click to visit the site

Third generation farmer Roger Mercer has been awarded a coveted Fellowship of Royal Agricultural Socieites FRAgS, in recognition of his agricultural, pork and poultry business Packington Free Range and the contribution he makes to the agricultural industry.

“It is a wonderful organisation to belong to and a great honour for me to receive this award,” says
Mercer.  “There are lots of good farmers in this country so it is difficult for me to justify why we have
won this award but, at Packington, our farming approach is very much aimed at providing food with provenance and respecting the welfare of our animals, which comes above all else.”

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... click to visit the site

Packington Pork, based in Barton-under-Needwood, has used its generations of experience to win the joint acclaimed accolade of Pig Producer of the Year, awarded by industry experts at Pig & Poultry Marketing Magazine. Packington Poultry also received a ‘highly commended’ for the welfare of
their chickens... click to visit the site