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| The Grower Bulletin brings you the top stories across the edibles production sector, including soft fruit, top fruit, vegetables and salad crops. |
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| Latest Edibles Production News |
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| Delegates told planting with taller stakes can increase tonnage per hectare and improve colour. |
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| Policy on flood defence criticised for failing to recognise role of agriculture and food production. |
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| Stronger supply chain relationships, improved producer organisation scheme management, renewing the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Scheme (SAWS), terminating the Agricultural Wages Board (AWB) and consideration for polytunnels in the planning system f... |
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| The Government's "delays and procrastination" mean that a supermarket adjudicator is unlikely to be up and running until 2014-15, shadow Defra secretary Mary Creagh has claimed. |
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| A public enquiry will determine whether a £20m glasshouse salad development can go ahead near Chichester in West Sussex following a concerted local campaign to prevent the scheme. |
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| Representatives at stone fruit meeting reach consensus on need for comprehensive data but plan of action to be agreed. |
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| Research pointing to imidacloprid as a factor in bee colony collapse has been published in the German scientific journal Naturwissenschaften, prompting fresh calls for a ban on the systemic insecticide. |
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| Growers should report thefts from their properties in order to help police anticipate such incidents in the future, PC Michael Laidlow of Kent Police told delegates at the British Independent Fruit Growers Association Technical Day last week. |
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| Brassica Conference |
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| Matthew Rawson has set out his priorities as chairman of the Brassica Growers Association (BGA), a role he took over at its AGM last month. |
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| Gavin McEwan reports from the Brassica Growers Association Conference at Lincolnshire Showground. |
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| Oilseed rape crops serve as a "massive reservoir" of the turnip yellows virus (TuYV) that seriously reduces yields of vegetable brassicas, according to University of Warwick researcher Dr John Walsh. |
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| Edibles Production In Depth |
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| Writing a formal business plan helps define the what, why and how of achievement, says Neville Stein. |
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