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Dixon On ... Time to play the economic field

13 Apr 2012 | by Geoff Dixon

Former US president Bill Clinton's famous aphorism - "It's the economy, stupid" - applies to horticulture as to everyone else. Voters and hence politicians are basically interested in money in their pockets. When the economy does well, money is spent and life is happy. A struggling economy means little...

Dixon On ... Fashioning a health role for cabbages

28 Oct 2011 | by Geoff Dixon

Lincolnshire's annual October vegetable breeders' open days demonstrated well how market fashions change.

Dixon on ... why horticulture needs chemistry

25 Feb 2011 | by Geoff Dixon

This is the Year of Chemistry, an international celebration of achievements responsible for improving all our lives. What does this mean for horticulture?

Dixon on ... Eating your 21st century greens

10 Dec 2010 | by Geoff Dixon

For once there is some good news for growers.

Dixon on ... hanging together

30 Jul 2010 | by Geoff Dixon

News that Reading University and East Malling Research are collaborating is very welcome. Both are long-standing and robust supporters of British fruit growers. Add in Stockbridge Technology Centre and the Processors & Growers Research Organisation at Peterborough and a patchwork of R&D capacity starts...

Dixon on... Promoting food security

19 Feb 2010 | by Geoff Dixon

The man of the moment is Jimmy Doherty, with his prime-time BBC2 TV crusade for science-based growing and farming.

Dixon on... What we need for a better 2010

18 Dec 2009 | by Geoffrey Dixon

Send 2009 packing. Pretty consistently, it has been marred with credit shortages and good businesses going to the wall.

Dixon on ... The closure of research facilities

27 Mar 2009 | by Geoff Dixon

"For sale" boards at Kirton Research Centre mark the end of half a century of effective publicly funded knowledge transfer.

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