
A new report commissioned by the NFU found costs of production had increased by almost 40 per cent in the past two years, with energy costs rising by 218 per cent, fertiliser by 47 per cent and labour...
A new report commissioned by the NFU found costs of production had increased by almost 40 per cent in the past two years, with energy costs rising by 218 per cent, fertiliser by 47 per cent and labour...
Dan Hawes grew up on an arable farm in Suffolk and now produces strawberry and raspberry plants for the UK fruit market with Blaise Plants, sister company to Hugh Lowe Farms, Kent. The business grows outside, under tunnels and in glasshouses and produces more than four million plants a year. The arable side includes environmental schemes, with a mix of wheat, oilseed rape, beans and barley crops.
Visitors to The Agroforestry Show were met with inspiring experiences and knowledge transfer opportunities within the two-day event in Hertfordshire