Brassica news archive – Page 21
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Article‘Incompetent’ gangmaster stripped of GLA licence
A labour supplier to pea and sprout growers in the West Midlands has had licence removed after underpaying workers
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ArticleRussian retailers raise prices
Prices are up throughout Russia due to soaring inflation, but many grocery stores in Samara have been accused of taking advantage of consumers
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ArticleUK demand for organic veg at ‘all time high’
Organic cauliflower tops list with value up 66.7 per cent, with brassica, broccoli and root crops also in growth over Christmas
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ArticleFreshtime sponsors local netball team
Lincolnshire prepared and salad firm has provided Boston West Academy with a new kit for the mixed netball team
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ArticleTruss gets taste of hands-free tractor on veg grower visit
Riviera Produce's £100,000 investment in next generation farming was wheeled out for the recent visit of the Defra secretary
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ArticleCBBC star unveiled as new 'face' of brassicas
Professional chef Aaron Craze will help with PR activity for the growers' association and its Love Your Greens campaign
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ArticleFlower Sprout to make international debut
The vegetable will be available in a number of European countries from this year
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ArticleGecko found in Sainsbury’s broccoli
Family allowed to keep ‘Broc’ as family pet while retailer stresses broccoli is ‘thoroughly inspected’ at point of harvest
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ArticleSales surge for cavolo nero
Waitrose sees sales of the veg also known as 'Tuscan kale' rise by nearly 350 per cent, and tips it for even greater heights in 2015
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ArticleSprouts set to rub shoulders with Dr Who on Xmas TV
BBC TV's Christmas Countryfile show set to include its visit to one of the UK's top sprout farmers
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ArticleCarrots beat sprouts as Christmas staple
New survey finds more people expect to eat root vegetables for Christmas dinner, rather than traditional brassica
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ArticleConsumers could win body weight in purple sprouts
Dutch grower Van Nature offers chance to name new sprout variety and win body weight in Christmas staple
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ArticlePurple craze set for sprout market
The Redarling variety, grown in Lincolnshire, set to hit the shelves at Waitrose this week, followed by Asda and The Co-op
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ArticlePre-tax loss and dip in turnover for Lincolnshire Field Products
Firm has posted a pre-tax loss of nearly £75k - down from a pre-tax profit of just under £944k the year before
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ArticleCauliflower congress heads to Brittany
The International Cauliflower Congress takes place in Saint-Pol-de-Léon next month, with technical developments and sustainable production at the top of the agenda
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ArticleFlorette brings baby kale to UK retailers
Salad brand says baby kale is a £3.3m opportunity for single leaf sector and confirms “massive marketing” push will follow
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ArticleMore Tenderstem sold last month than in the whole of 2004
The Chinese kale and regular broccoli hybrid had sales of 564,000kg in September 2014
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ArticleProduce World partners with LFP
Vegetable supplier forms ‘strategic alliance’ with Lincolnshire Field Products to secure land bank for brassicas
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ArticleBurgess calls for National Kale Day
USA set to celebrate the vegetable this week, while sales of kale are up 79 per cent year on year in the UK
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ArticleFlower Sprouts renamed for US
Tozer Seeds launch sprout kale hybrid in the US under new name Kalettes to reach kale-loving American consumers