FARMERS, butchers and others interested are invited to a meeting to form a beef and lamb producers' group for the upper dales.

The meeting to be held on Tuesday, at the market hall, in Hawes, has been called by Hawes farmers' auction mart and McIntyre Farm Services. It is the culmination of earlier meetings which sounded out opinions about the proposal for the dales beef and lamb initiative, to be complemented by a local abattoir, and to form a producers' group.

The project has been developing with co-operation from Richmondshire District Council, North Yorkshire County Council, Northern Dales meat initiative, ADAS, and Armstrong Watson Consulting and the Performance Imnprovement Partnership.

For further details contact Mr Maurice Hall, Hawes auction mart manager, tel 01969 667207