Mike Abram, PR and communications manager, Bayer CropScience
18 May 2012
Mike Abram has joined Bayer CropScience as PR and communications manager.
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.
Defra secretary of state Caroline Spelman will be at the Food and Environment Research Agency (Fera's) Chelsea Flower Show display which will outline how the public can help prevent the spread of devastating plant pests and disease in gardens and the countryside.
British watercress farmers have presented the current Earl of Sandwich with a version of the original sandwich, which featured the nutritious leafy vegetable.
Some 19 regions are no longer officially in drought following the wettest April on record and continuing rainfall in May.
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.



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