FPJ Staff
ArticleCovent Garden Market celebrates 70 years supplying the Queen
Comment: As Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II celebrates her Platinum Jubilee, traders at London’s New Covent Garden Market look back with pride on 70 years of supplying the Royal Households
ArticleJoin the party at Festival of Fresh!
Fresh Produce Journal’s annual celebration and conference for the UK fruit and vegetable industry is returning with an in-person occasion hosted by Berry Gardens at their home near Maidstone, Kent
ArticleQuantis Heat Stress Alert provides weather warning
Heat Stress Alert warns potato growers of local crop risks for Quantis timing
ArticleThe Food Chain launches Winter Food Drive
HIV charity calls for donations to help people in crisis at a time of rapidly increasing food and energy costs
ArticleDefra opens AHDB consultation
Consultation gives growers the chance to say if they still want AHDB to carry out any work in horticulture and potatoes
AnalysisWho will pay for the war on plastic?
Comment: As the UK’s Plastic Packaging Tax draws ever closer, Wellpak’s Bradley Magnus asks whether money is our strongest weapon in the war on plastic
ArticleLabour crisis impact 'makes you want to cry'
British growers express labour crisis despair on BBC Radio 4's You and Yours consumer affairs programme
ArticleDeal restarts CO2 production
UK ministers reach deal on CO2 production to ease food supply fears
ArticleNew Caretaker speeds up spud grading, says grower
Scottish potato grower says custom-built new Caretaker from Tong saves labour and streamlines grading process
ArticleGovt response to HGV crisis dangerous, warns ParcelHero
The Government’s panicked easing of HGV driving test requirements is a dangerous reaction to the driver shortage, warns ParcelHero
Article'Holistic approach' to tackle food waste
Comment: Supply chain and circular economy professors Kamran Mahroof and Sankar Sivarajah consider why so much food is wasted, and what to do about it
ArticleDutch tomato exports under pressure
Brexit and Morocco are hampering Dutch tomato exports to the UK, Rabobank's Cindy van Rijswick and René Gomersbach report
ArticleBrexit trade deals 'may cause 1,500 extra deaths'
Comment: Marco Springmann, senior researcher at the Oxford Martin Programme on the Future of Food, University of Oxford, argues UK agricultural trade policy must be based around health priorities
ArticleLarge turnout for first-ever Festival of Fresh
Delegates from more than 40 countries participate as the UK fresh produce industry discusses the key issues of the day
ArticleMorrisons takeover bid 'a good deal'
Comment: Chris Elliott, head of Market Insights at Edge by Ascential, believes Morrisons takeover by Fortress is "a good deal"
ArticleDownload FPJ Going Global
Six months after Brexit we explore the trade opportunities and challenges for UK suppliers as they adjust to life outside the Single Market
ArticleDriver shortage turns 'critical'
Expect empty shelves and higher prices as driver shortage turns critical, warns delivery company ParcelHero
ArticleDriver shortage deepens transport crisis
Comment: Tasneem Alonzo, joint managing director at EHL Ingredients, on how the transport crisis is affecting the food industry
ArticleOver 60 speakers join Festival of Fresh
New, free-to-attend UK event is a celebration of the fresh produce industry, focusing on new and exciting developments
ArticleFresh produce 'being dumped' due to driver shortage
Nationwide Produce MD Tim O'Malley outlines a major developing crisis facing the UK fresh produce industry