All articles by FPJ Staff
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Covent 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
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Join 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
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Quantis Heat Stress Alert provides weather warning
Heat Stress Alert warns potato growers of local crop risks for Quantis timing
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The 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
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Defra opens AHDB consultation
Consultation gives growers the chance to say if they still want AHDB to carry out any work in horticulture and potatoes
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Who 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
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Labour crisis impact 'makes you want to cry'
British growers express labour crisis despair on BBC Radio 4's You and Yours consumer affairs programme
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Deal restarts CO2 production
UK ministers reach deal on CO2 production to ease food supply fears
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New Caretaker speeds up spud grading, says grower
Scottish potato grower says custom-built new Caretaker from Tong saves labour and streamlines grading process
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Govt 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
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'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
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Dutch tomato exports under pressure
Brexit and Morocco are hampering Dutch tomato exports to the UK, Rabobank's Cindy van Rijswick and René Gomersbach report
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Brexit 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
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Large 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
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Morrisons 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"
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Download 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
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Driver shortage turns 'critical'
Expect empty shelves and higher prices as driver shortage turns critical, warns delivery company ParcelHero
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Driver shortage deepens transport crisis
Comment: Tasneem Alonzo, joint managing director at EHL Ingredients, on how the transport crisis is affecting the food industry
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Over 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
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Fresh produce 'being dumped' due to driver shortage
Nationwide Produce MD Tim O'Malley outlines a major developing crisis facing the UK fresh produce industry