All articles by FPJ Staff – Page 159
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EurepGAP rebrands
Food assurance body EurepGAP has rebranded itself as GlobalGAP at the eighth annual conference in Thailand.
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ArticleTotal focuses on local
Having settled into its new premises in Sighthill, the Edinburgh division of Total Produce is eyeing up a series of opportunities. Doris Lee Butterworth reports.
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ArticleWinter energy: a heated debate
As summer starts to fade away, the thoughts of many growers begin to turn to winter. However the past two years have seen massively varying gas and electricity prices. Michael Barker asks what energy prices growers can look forward to this time around.
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Sensible approach for research
The new collaboration between ADAS and Stockbridge Technology Centre makes sense on a number of levels, and should be a good
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ArticleFurther introductions from S&G
S&G Flowers has revealed its latest collection of varieties, due to go on sale for the 2007/2008 season.
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ArticleReport backs SFVS
The Schools Fruit and Veg Scheme has received its second vote of confidence in the last month with the launch of a report revealing that 13 percent more schoolchildren are achieving their Five-a-Day target than two years ago.
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Exotic fruit causes a Greenhouse Sensation in Mawdesley
Many a summer has been spent picking your own strawberries - but a greenhouse in Mawdesley, Lancashire, wants visitors to pick something altogether more exotic.
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A rose named Roxanne
An Emmerdale actress was honoured at the Southport Flower Show last month, when she had a rose named after her.
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Gooseberry gong
A gooseberry enthusiast from Cheshire has won an award for a berry that he grew from stock cultivated by his father 60 years ago.
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ArticleWhite sweetcorn hits shelves
The first ever UK-grown white sweetcorn has gone on sale at Sainsbury’s.
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ArticleSwitch on to savings in store
As crops come into store, make sure you know what you’re spending energy on. That’s the message from the British Potato Council for growers and store managers this autumn.
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F&PA names competition winner
A West Yorkshire woman has won a day’s flower arranging tuition and a beginner’s floristry kit, thanks to a competition organised by the Flowers & Plants Association.
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ArticleEarliest Cox picking date recorded
Despite the wash out summer apple growers started harvesting Cox orchards destined for long term storage in the last week of August, the earliest Cox picking date ever recorded.
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Glee launch for John Woods
John Woods nurseries will launch its new business at the forthcoming Glee trade show in Birmingham.
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ArticleOrganics hits £2bn sales
A new Soil Association report has revealed that organic food and drink sales have crashed through the £2 billion mark - with an average of £37 million spent on organic products every week.
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ArticleNFU puts food prices into context
The NFU has attempted to put scare-stories of food price rises into context, saying that whilst the costs of farming are rising, food prices are now lower than they have ever been.
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Quick-Sol promises great things for growers
A new plant and soil treatment has been launched at this week’s Four Oaks show, promising to ‘transform the way growing for farming and horticulture is done in the UK.’
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Reading to host climate change conference
A conference will be taking place later this month which will look at the impacts of climate change in the south and east of the UK and present the commercial opportunities available to growers.
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Apple & pear season start brought forward
The official start of the English apple & pear season has been brought forward by one week as a result of this year’s crop being up to 10 days ahead of usual.
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ArticleFirst Cox hits Tesco stores
Tesco has received the first of the season's English Cox, delivered last Friday to its Lunsford Park store on the edge of Maidstone.