All Production & Trade articles – Page 1482

  • Stuart Busby Chefs Connection New Covent Garden
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    Foodservice award goes to Chef's Connection

    2007-05-11T10:01:01Z

    Chef’s Connection was the deserved winner of the JP Fresh Foodservice Supplier of the Year award. Despite its growth and success, Chef’s Connection has remained entirely dedicated to its core ethos - supplying friendly, personal customer service of the very highest degree.

  • L-r: Aubrey Kirkham, Alex Summers, Jimmy O'Connor, Ian Roofe, Tony Girard
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    O'Connor clinches young hort trophy

    2007-05-11T08:01:02Z

    Jimmy O’Connor has been crowned Young Horticulturist of the Year in the Institute of Horticulture’s annual competition.

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    ECPA lobbies MEPs to save crops

    2007-05-10T14:01:01Z

    The European Crop Protection Association (ECPA) is lobbying MEPs to “cast a vote for the range and variety of fruits and vegetables which make up Europe’s dining tables every day”.

  • CTFA looking forward to crop revival
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    CTFA looking forward to crop revival

    2007-05-10T13:01:01Z

    Californian peach, nectarine and plum growers are holding out for a 50.5 million-container crop this season. That is slightly larger than last year’s 47.5m containers, although down on 2004 and 2005 volumes, which stood at 50.8m and 50.9m containers respectively

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    Spud fraud uncovered by Trading Standards

    2007-05-10T10:01:01Z

    Trading Standards has unearthed cases in which imported potatoes have been sold as British product following checks on 32 shops and stores in South Wales.

  • Bayer launches Chishill bio-diversity site
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    Bayer launches Chishill bio-diversity site

    2007-05-10T08:01:01Z

    Bayer Cropscience officially launched its Chishill biodiversity site at a packed event last week.

  • Growers to get phone line cash
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    Growers to get phone line cash

    2007-05-09T14:01:01Z

    Growers with telephone wires running over their land are set for a cash boost after the NFU and CLA secured a deal with Energis, now owned by Cable & Wireless.

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    Exosect welcomes Defra grant

    2007-05-08T18:01:01Z

    Environmentally sound pest control provider Exosect has been awarded a grant from Defra to facilitate a joint research project with the International Pesticide Application Research Centre (IPARC), Dow AgroSciences and Micron Sprayers into commercial development of a new spray technology.

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    City youngsters to get first taste of rural life

    2007-05-08T16:01:01Z

    A bumper green grant will see London schoolchildren making some of their first trips to the countryside to see how their food is produced.

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    Fruit in the office a reality with Freshfel

    2007-05-08T14:01:01Z

    European fresh produce association Freshfel Europe has launched a charter to improve health in the workplace by increasing the availability of fruit and vegetables for employees and visitors at work.

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    EU must wait for biotech clarification

    2007-05-08T14:01:01Z

    Europe's farmers will not see any more clarity on EU rules for separating traditional, organic and biotech crops until at least 2009.

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    Airfreight issue loses impetus

    2007-05-08T10:01:01Z

    Kenya is one step closer to winning the battle to protect its huge European market, in the face of a campaign mounted by UK supermarkets to ban product over food mile concerns.

  • Budgens boosts British base
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    Budgens boosts British base

    2007-05-08T08:01:01Z

    Independent retailer Budgens is to throw its weight behind British Food Fortnight for the fourth year running.

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    Technology key to Vietnamese exports

    2007-05-07T18:01:01Z

    A disappointing production of fruit and vegetables in Vietnam this year and therefore low export turnover, has made the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) adjust its national programme on developing production and exports of fruit and vegetables.

  • Clive Baxter
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    Growers criticise assurance schemes

    2007-05-07T09:01:01Z

    Irritated growers have voiced their frustrations about complications they say are being added to assured produce schemes.

  • Clive Baxter
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    Growers not assured

    2007-05-07T08:01:01Z

    Growers are becoming increasingly fed up with the complicated requirements being added to the assured produce schemes.

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    HTA holds catering conference

    2007-05-06T14:01:01Z

    The HTA is to hold a catering conference on Tuesday July 10, aiming to inspire members to develop a more enthusiastic approach to their catering operation.

  • Water fans political flames
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    Water fans political flames

    2007-05-06T12:01:02Z

    It seems that water is once again fanning the flames of political rhetoric, as the UK searches for a national strategy to equate supply and demand.

  • Stubbins nursery welcomes local kids
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    Stubbins nursery welcomes local kids

    2007-05-06T09:01:01Z

    Local children paid a visit to Stubbins Marketing’s pepper nursery in Waltham Abbey last week, as part of the firm’s ongoing campaign to raise awareness among the younger generation of the benefits of locally grown British produce.

  • Best practise dicussed at FDF event
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    Best practise dicussed at FDF event

    2007-05-05T16:01:01Z

    Representatives from across the food chain have met to discuss which best practice techniques should be employed to reduce and manage waste throughout the supply chain.