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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.

Dry weather this year has thrown water supplies on farm into focus, but are rainwater harvesting systems are worth it?

Kent-based grower Hugh Lowe Farms delivers fresh berries daily to SW19 as part of its 50-tonne annual contract

Police said Kent beauty spot had rubbish piled 15 feet high

Delegates considered whether the emergence of resistance in Italian ryegrass on a farm in Kent would harm the herbicide's future approval chances

WRAG reissues crop protection guidelines for farmers

Growers are being urged to follow stewardship guidelines following the first confirmed case of field resistance to the herbicide in the UK

"The control zone is there through no fault of any member within that control zone"

Nine cases of the virus have been detected outside the zone in Cheshire, Shropshire, Somerset, Cumbria, Anglesey, Gwynedd, Cornwall and North Yorkshire

Maintaining forage stocks during the winter and managing summer grazing are the main challenges at Commonwork, an organic dairy farm in Kent