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LATEST FRESH PRODUCE NEWS

David Webster

Hort movers and people: LEAF, Bramblecrest, Planters UPDATED

British Apples and Pears sees hike in cost of apple production in the UK

Wilkin & Son celebrates strawberry growing success

Nationwide campaign in memory of 22-year-old farmer who took his own life

NIAB fruit research summarised in annual review

HortWeek Survey: What proportion of your garden sales and plant production is peat-free?

Harvest London vertical farm secures retail contract

Modern slavery arrests in West Sussex

Defra produces plan after water quality criticism

Fruit and veg imports rise and exports decline since Brexit

£900k Business Sustainability Challenge opens for food and drink sector

Macpac celebrates 50th anniversary

New community-owned farm seeks more community investors

AHDB cuts costs after horticulture vote to leave

Environmental Audit Committee hear of food 'perfect storm' and barriers to more tree planting

National Living Wage and energy bill hike from April 1

Winners and losers this horticulture week

HortWeek suggests harmonised approach to measuring net zero at Lords Horticultural Sector Enquiry

Government will encourage green finance for nature-based solutions

Latest science research: peat and moths

HortWeek to give evidence to Lords on net zero and horticulture

INDUSTRY ANALYSIS

HSE

Legal issues this horticulture week

Harnessing the power of social media with ‘The Beardy Gardener’

The Beardy Gardener

Peat: what's the latest?

Growing media

Seven policy updates relevant to horticulture

Border controls infographic

Horticulture Salary survey: analysis update for 2023

careers table map and graphics

Opportunity knocks for the next generation of horticulturists

Christopher Weddell: English Heritage has a large training programme to support all grades of staff - credit: English Heritage

20 most read horticulture stories this HortWeek month

Garden centre in the snow

Peat poll finds half believe 2026 is too soon for ban

What is the latest on net zero?

RASE

What do HTA, NFU and RHS policy demands have in common and how do they differ?

Houses of parliament see across the River Thames

Pest and diseases survey shows Xylella and OPM concern

Oak processionary moth caterpillars circling a tree trunk

What is the Lords horticulture enquiry hearing from the industry? - in 20 bullet points

Lords enquiry

Emmett on the Budget, 'compressed spring' and supermarket rationing

Martin Emmett

Women in Horticulture UK: what is it and what does it hope to achieve? UPDATED

Women in Horticulture UK logo

Defra unveils 2023 grants available - water, trees and more

Chalk stream next to a field

This week in HortWeek history - 1 March 1841

EAMU UPDATES

EAMU roundup: March 2023

EAMU roundup: February 2023

Cabbage field

EAMU roundup: January 2023

Spraying glasshouse plants

EAMU roundup: December 2022

Field of carrots

EAMU roundup: November 2022

Onlon field

EAMU roundup: October 2022

EAMU EXPIRY ALERTS

EAMU Expiry Alert: July 2023

EAMU authorisations that are due to expire by the end of July 2023.

OPINION

Crop-protection funding dilemma

What I would have told the Lords' horticultural enquiry so we can feed the nation

Sally Drury

Another border control post bungle

Mike Parr

UK food crisis will get worse unless supply chain gets more care

Oliver Chapman

Shortages 'tip of iceberg' if UK’s food security not tackled now

Simon Deacon - credit: Light Science Technologies

Action, not words required to deal with fresh produce shortages

Mike Parr