The mushroom industry relies on supplies of wet, deep-dug peat and sugar beet lime for casings to produce high yields. However, the availability of these materials is declining in Britain and Ireland and imports will increase costs.
Mark Bartram has been appointed as Kawasaki's power products dealer in the UK.
Mike Abram has joined Bayer CropScience as PR and communications manager.
Lucinda Compton from Newby Hall in North Yorkshire is to replace the Duchess of Northumberland as North of England Horticultural Society president in May 2013.
Dr Roger Williams, head of science at the RHS, has left the society to take a new role working for New Zealand's crops levy board.
Fred Gooder, a farmer and grower from North Yorkshire, has been re-elected as chairman of the NFU legal board.
Toby Whatley (above, second right) has been appointed as a technical sales specialist at sprayers and aerial atomiser producer Micron Group.
Marubeni Corporation of Japan has purchased a majority controlling interest in Spaldings, with a minority equity stake being retained by existing shareholders.
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