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Comment from Horticulture Week writers, columnists and industry experts including Kate Lowe, Peter Seabrook, Geoff Dixon, Andrew Hewson, Jeremy Barrell, Noel Farrer and Tim Edwards.

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Opinion... Frictionless trade good for business

13 December 2018 , By Tim Edwards

Whether you voted to remain in or to exit from the EU, the value of "frictionless trade" has become clear over these past 16 months.

Opinion... Why is experience being discarded?

5 December 2018 , By Peter Seabrook

A long-serving person in the nursery trade, who has won numerous RHS Gold Medals and, incidentally, served the society remarkably well, is now in their sixties and was advised recently that they are too old to judge.

Opinion... Good science vital for horticulture

30 November 2018 , By Geoff Dixon

The 8,000-plus papers published in The Journal of Horticultural Science & Biotechnology (JHSB) over the past 100 years chart discoveries that innovators have converted into valuable technological businesses.

Opinion... War on climate change must be won

13 November 2018 , By Noel Farrer

No one wants war, yet the world has more conflict today than at any other time in history. All of it hiding behind justification, denial, selfishness, rhetoric, lies and misinformation.

Opinion... Home grown needs promotion funding

16 October 2018 , By Peter Seabrook

There are clear indications of a switch from imported to more home-grown horticultural crops, prompted by the falling value of the pound, plant health concerns and Brexit.

Opinion... Healthy trees work harder for longer

3 October 2018 , By Jeremy Barrell

UK satellite images after heavy rain show river estuaries engulfed by massive swirls of muddy-brown water extending out into the surrounding ocean blue. It is soil scoured from our mismanaged land because of Government policies that focus on food production at the expense of sustainability.