All articles by Kathy Hammond – Page 125
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Almeria faces crop delays
Unauthorised pesticide use on protected salad crops in Almeria last winter and adverse press coverage in key markets such as Germany have turned growers in the Spanish region on to integrated production techniques, but also causing delays in plantings.
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Growers hail Waitrose decision
Waitrose has pledged its support to UK growers with damaged apple crops by selling hail-marked fruit.
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GLA revokes more licences
The Gangmasters Licensing Authority has revoked the licences of 11 labour providers.
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Canary Islands fires affect farms
Forest fires in the north and north west of the island of Tenerife in the Canary Islands have destroyed farms and potato and tomato production land.
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ArticleBomfords deal done
The remaining majority of the Bomfords Group has been sold in two separate deals.
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ArticleNZ apples in zero residue bid
New Zealand apple growers are rolling out a no-detectable-residues project called Apple Futures.
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ArticlePartial Bomfords sale announced
Part of the Bomfords Group has been sold for an undisclosed sum.
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ArticleEiC takes to the road
The Eat in Colour (EiC) campaign is taking to the coast with a roadshow in holiday hotspots nationwide that started on Sunday.
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ArticleBelize banana warning
Belize must become more competitive in the banana sector if it is to remain in the market, sector leaders have said.
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ArticleSpain foresees lighter citrus crop
Early indications are that the 2007-08 Spanish citrus crop will be lighter than that of the season just ending.
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Pratt's in union link up
Banana importer SH Pratt has invited the GMB trade union to its Luton operation following a BBC Radio exposé in May of poor working conditions.
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ArticleRetail heads for slowdown
The latest TNS Worldpanel grocery market-share figures show the first signs of a consumer slowdown in the grocery market, with growth dipping to just four per cent.
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Electronic tongue trial
Trials on electronic taste-tesing procedures for Flandria tomatoes are underway in Belgium.
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Cash splurge for export veg
New Zealand vegetable exports are set to benefit from a multi-million dollar research project.
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ArticleTesco and Asda support for growers floods in
Supermarkets are responding to severe flooding in the UK with a promise of retail price rises to UK growers where necessary.
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Fyffes and Chiquita face further probe
Fyffes and Chiquita have both received statements of objections from the European Commission relating to an investigation begun in 2005 into a suspected cartel supplying bananas in Europe.
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Fyffes plays down issues
Fyffes has played down reports in the Irish press that its trans-Atlantic shipping service to Dublin launched in June has run into problems already.
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ArticleUK berries in blue summer
The UK is approaching the mid-point in its blueberry season, after a very mild April meant harvesting in the earliest production areas in southern England began on June 10 - five weeks ahead of 2006.
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Hortilicence to thrill MP
MorePeople (MP) has teamed up with garden centre and DIY chain Homebase to develop Hortilicence - a staff training programme run by MorePerformance, the recruitment consultancy’s training division.
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ArticleHail batters English crop
Hailstorms and heavy rain swept across much of Kent at the weekend causing extensive damage to the English apple crop.Some individual growers lost entire orchards, while others escaped unscathed.