All Flowers articles – Page 79

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    Hadlow wins award

    2002-05-30T00:00:00Z

    Hadlow College win award for educational display. Their Phyting Fit stand at the Chelsea Flower Show highlights health advantages of home-grown fresh produce. A good introduction to new herbal mediciine course in September.

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    Spain: citrus picture less gloomy

    2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

    An official report from the foreign attaché service of the US department of agriculture points to a smaller Spanish citrus crop for 2002-03,but revises this season's output upwards compared to earlier forecasts.

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    Solanum unveils Jubilee potato

    2002-05-20T00:00:00Z

    Potato marketing group Solanum is introducing a new salad potato variety this season to mark the Queen's golden jubilee.

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    NFU head to visit HRI

    2002-03-12T00:00:00Z

    Ben Gill, president of the National Farmers Union to visit HRI, as part of the organisation's campaign to stop government cuts to horticultural R&D funding.

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    Top grower tickled pink

    2002-03-01T00:00:00Z

    A specialist grower of garden pinks receives Grower of the Year Award 2002.

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    Customers attack Birmingham wholesale hours

    2002-02-07T00:00:00Z

    Users of Birmingham wholesale fruit and vegetable market contest its new time regime. It is costing us business, they claim.

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    Minnaar joins Greenery

    2002-01-23T00:00:00Z

    Dutch exporter Minnaar will be joining the Dutch grower-owned Greenery group as a direct distributor of its produce and related imports.

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    Vietnam ready to show flower power

    2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

    Vietnamese government backs flower industry.Quality and volume to boom say sources in far east.

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    Israeli merger on

    2001-12-20T00:00:00Z

    An Israeli parliamentary sub-committee approves agriculture minister Shalom Simhon's proposal to merge the country's production boards.

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    Big freeze hits Spain

    2001-12-19T00:00:00Z

    Low temperatures are set to take their toll on Spanish horticultural production.

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    HRI boosts diversity

    2001-11-14T00:00:00Z

    A new initiative from HRI hopes to help growers in Lincolnshire diversify production.

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    Stockbridge Technology Centre under threat from site sale

    2001-08-06T00:00:00Z

    Major horticultural research centre faces homelessness. Defra bosses open to offers for key North Yorkshire site.

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    Whitty samples market life

    2001-07-31T00:00:00Z

    Minister for the food chain pays his first visit to the government-owned New Covent Garden horticultural wholesale market.

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    F&PA to launch amusing ads

    2001-07-20T00:00:00Z

    The Flower & Plants Association is set to launch a humorous advertising campaign, intended to change women's attitudes to buying flowers.

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    HDC announces studentship scheme

    2001-06-19T00:00:00Z

    A new scheme, initiated by the Horticultural Development Council, aims to provide technically qualified people to work as industry-orientated researchers or growers.

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    Red tractor pulls off Chelsea gold

    2001-05-25T00:00:00Z

    The British Farm Standard has won gold for the National Farmers' Union at the Chelsea Flower Show this week.

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    Sheffield gets new market

    2001-05-10T00:00:00Z

    Wholesalers in the South Yorkshire city have just moved into new premises.

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    US floriculture flourishing

    2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

    Pot plants and bedding boost US value for floriculture in 2000

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    Research accelerates citrus fruiting

    2001-03-26T00:00:00Z

    Spanish agronomists have discovered a way of hastening fruiting in citrus trees.

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    Dole slips up on bananas

    2001-02-07T00:00:00Z

    The tricky banana trade is being blamed for Q4 losses at the world's largest fruit and vegetable supplier.