Meldungen aus Europa – Page 4489
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Raspberry bubble bursts
The first signs that the bubble is bursting for Spanish raspberry producers came this season with prices falling year on year for the first time.
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Waitrose buys into BioFresh
Waitrose has endorsed the storage of potatoes using BioFresh’s ethylene storage system.
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ArticleThe Food Climate Research Network calls for change
In one of the more direct lectures of the Re:fresh conference, Tara Garnett of the Food Climate Research Network discussed the difference the food chain as a whole makes to climate changing emissions and what we can do to reduce those emissions.
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ArticleEiC notches up yet more interest
Following the presentation of the Eat in Colour (EiC) campaign at last week’s Re:fresh conference, four more companies have approached campaign chairman Anthony Levy to express their interest in supporting the industry’s successful push to increase consumption.
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ArticleColquhoun is interim levy chair
Former RHS director general, Andrew Colquhoun, has been appointed as the interim chair of the shadow horticultural levy company.
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ArticleUK no longer key target
The UK is no longer the key target market for producers around the world, and is now having to compete with other nations to procure produce, according to Michael Velasco, president of the Fresh Produce Consortium (FPC).
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Chemical constraints
Food processors could find themselves under new constraints in how they use chemicals for cleaning in their plants.
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Climate change levy in huge cost cuts
The NFU’s 80 per cent horticultural climate change levy scheme has reduced carbon emissions in the UK sector drastically in its first year of operation.
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Growers slash traffic
Horticultural businesses have taken 15,000 family cars off the road last year by reducing their ‘carbon footprints’.
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ArticleSales strong despite spinach scares
The US produce industry is in fine fettle, according to Lorna Christie, senior vice-president of the Produce Marketing Association.
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ArticleSainsbury's enviro pledge
Sainsbury’s is set to crank up its environmental expectations further in response to consumer demands.
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Kent cauli grower quits
Kent’s biggest cauliflower grower, Robert Montgomery from the Isle of Thanet, is to cease production of the crop because the vegetable is no longer financially viable.
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Landfills soon to be in the dustbin of history
The physical realities of climate change are already outrunning legislative progress, an expert has said.
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ArticleSainsbury's sets out its stall
The push for corporate responsibility in the food industry has shifted from the government to the supermarkets, Sainsbury’s category manager Jat Sahota told the Re:fresh conference, before showcasing a number of initiatives led by the retailer.
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ArticleHayes throws weight behind UK industry
John Hayes MP, conservative member for South Holland and the Deepings, described his Lincolnshire constituency as the “food basket of Britain".
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ArticleRose Growers' Association renamed
The British Rose Growers Association has been renamed the HTA British Roses Group.
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No smoke with fresh produce
With the introduction of the smoking ban looming, many British pubs and restaurants are anticipating dwindling profits from
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ArticleThe power of watercress
National Watercress Week is taking place from May 13-20, and was launched at the celebrated Watercress Festival in Alresford, Hampshire. The watercress season is in full swing, with a good-quality crop and high demand on the cards. Elizabeth O’Keefe talks to the companies involved in the promotional week and finds out what is in store for the watercress industry
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ArticleFeeling the squeeze
Although this season’s South African citrus exports are fully expected to equal those of 2006 with regard to both volume and quality, growers can only hope that returns echo the stability of production patterns. Louise Brodie and Laura Gould report
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Nuffield scholar takes world tour
English growers have been left with the image of a highly competitive international industry in which new growing techniques and varieties are still exploding onto the scene in the race to at least hold market share.