“Apples – a field guide” by Michael Clark
The fruit grower’s bookshelf should always welcome a new fruit growing book as they are rarely published. None more so ...
Month: October 2015
Ebtech starts greenhouse build
Hull-based greenhouse specialists Ebtech have begun work on a 7,500 sq. m extension for lettuce propagator PR & AJ Mercer, ...
Fruit Show displays the best of the UK’s fruit industry
Marden Fruit Society Chair Sarah Calcutt reported that there had been 140 entries in the stunning display of English fruit, ...
Orchard robotics become a reality at the National Fruit Show
Such is the speed of technological change that the fruit industry, having just absorbed the significance of mechanical pruning and ...
New supplement boosts predatory mites in crops
A new food supplement to boost predatory mites in crops has been launched in the UK by Biobest UK. Unveiled ...
Produce Investments sees profits fall
Produce Investments, the parent company of potato packer Greenvale, has said that it will close the recently acquired Kent Potato ...
Scottish growers worried about minimum wage
Growers in Scotland have warned that they will be unfairly penalised by plans to introduce a national living wage from ...
Organic grower takes on the ‘big boys’ at National Fruit Show and wins
One of the top fruit industry’s leading organic growers, Paul Ward of Mole End Farms in Kent, took on conventional ...
Scotherbs to close
Only 16 months after being bought by Langmeads, Scotherbs has lost a contract with a major customer that is worth ...
M&S to give surplus food to charity
According to reports, Marks and Spencer is to begin donating surplus food to charity. It will begin with 150 stores ...
