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Leader: Focus on registration will aid biopesticides

26 Mar 2010 | by Kate Lowe

The critical role that biopesticides will be called on to play across horticulture as the impact of increasingly tough environmental policies such as the EU's Sustainable Use Directive hit home is a subject rarely absent from today's industry conference agendas.

Balanced economy needs commitment

13 Feb 2009 | by Kate Lowe

The speed with which the downturn in the UK has arrived has been much commented on.

Be heard before Tuesday's EU vote

09 Jan 2009 | by Kate Lowe, editor

We had hoped to welcome in 2009 with some positive news from Europe on pesticides. But it is not to be - not just yet. Three weeks ago, as HW published its last issue of 2008, the industry was holding out for news of a compromise deal that would meet at least some of the serious concerns of horticulture...

Last call for EU-wide impact assessment

19 Dec 2008 | by Kate Lowe

In this week's special update on the progress of the EU's proposals to toughen up on pesticides restrictions, we outline in detail the findings of the Pesticides Safety Directorate's (PSD's) revised assessment alongside commentaries by scientists and technical advisers on the latest developments.

EU plans continue to pose threat to sector

12 Dec 2008 | by Kate Lowe

As HW went to press, the industry was waiting anxiously for the publication of the Pesticides Safety Directorate's (PSD's) full report into the impact on key horticultural crops of the latest amendments to the EU's proposals for toughened restrictions on pesticides. The report is due out today.

EU vote could turn with your input

14 Nov 2008 | by Kate Lowe

Many in the industry may be feeling downhearted at last week's decision by the Environment Committee of the European Parliament to vote through the majority of the most damaging amendments to the EU's proposals on pesticide use (news, p6).

EU must work with industry on pesticides

31 Oct 2008 | by Kate Lowe

Of all the arguments made against those challenging the most extreme proposals for restrictions on pesticide use, now at their second reading in the European Parliament, the most extraordinary is the allegation of scaremongering over the proposals' likely impact on industry.

More funds worries for parks managers

17 Oct 2008 | by Kate Lowe

Whether or not you agree that councils hit by the sinking of Landsbanki and Glitnir banks were foolhardy to continue to invest in them after their shares were downgraded by ratings agencies - or that they were simply badly advised - the real worry is that the potential impact on council service provision...

Evaluating new plant care methods

13 Dec 2007 | by Kate Lowe

In this week's edition, Professor Geoff Dixon describes how the focus of research into pest and disease control has shifted towards the principle of "feeding the plants first and gaining pest control second" (see p30).

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