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ArticleOlympian Jazmin Sawyers launches British Jazz apple season
Team GB track-and-field Olympian helps jump-start the British Jazz apple season in Kent this week
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ArticleSchools confirm success of 2024 ‘Eat Them to Defeat Them’ campaign
Results show children ate more vegetables and enjoyed participating in schools healthy eating initiative
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ArticleUKFPN brings together industry leaders for its first Festival of Agriculture
Taking place in Lincolnshire on 17 October, the event highlighted the latest in UK agricultural advancements
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ArticleKenya restricts avocado exports by sea
As the avocado season comes to a close in Kenya, the Horticulture Directorate has judged that there are insufficient volumes of mature fruit to justify exports by sea, but air shipments can continue
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ArticleNFU writes to PM to stress need for renewed ag budget
Farming union calls on Keir Starmer to live up to his commitments at the 2023 NFU Conference
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ArticleBritish blues are booming at Hall Hunter
British fruit grower Hall Hunter reports record year for its UK blueberry crop
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ArticleUK organic market registers green shoots of recovery
UK organic food and drink sales bounce back from cost-of-living crisis with growth exceeding non-organic sector, conference says
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ArticleEosta sees ginger potential for central Europe
Cultivation in Bosnia and Herzegovina can bring organic ginger closer to European market, where the popularity of the superfood continues to rise, says Dutch importer
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ArticlePluckk becomes exclusive fresh produce partner for Spencer’s Retail
Indian retailer will exclusively offer the fresh produce food tech platform’s products in three cities
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ArticlePALS marks anniversary by looking to the future
Already heralded as South Africa’s most successful agricultural reform initiative, PALS is celebrating ten years of creating new opportunities for people all over the country
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ArticleM&S launches its first autonomous field trial to grow lower-carbon parsnips
The trial is using some of the latest farming technology and forms part of M&S’ ambitions to reach net-zero by 2040
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NewsJumbo and The Greenery point consumers towards new cabbage variety
This autumn sees the arrival of Savoy pointed cabbage, developed in partnership with Bejo and AS de Boer, on the retailer’s shelves
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ArticleBudget tops agenda as NFU Cymru meets First Minister
Welsh union stresses importance of adequate funding for farmers at meeting with new government heads
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ArticleWholesalers urged to promote British produce
Love British Food calls on UK wholesale sector to highlight British produce in a bid to boost demand
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ArticleTaste research to set new standard for apples, says FruitMasters
Dutch cooperative FruitMasters has launched a new taste guide with the aim of standardising the apple assortment on shelves
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ArticleRiverford ‘farmwashing’ campaign exposes supermarket ‘fake brands’
New campaign highlights supermarket practice that ’hoodwinks consumers’ and hurts smaller producers
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ArticleMarket trends push up Irish potato production
A combination of cold weather and strong domestic demand has conspired to push up potato acreage across Ireland this year
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ArticleSoil Association partners with Lloyds Bank in new sustainable farming initiative
The joint initiative involves 685 UK farms that will be supported with funding to transition to more sustainable practices
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ArticleBakkavor workers strike over low pay
Tesco, Marks and Spencer and Waitrose could face food product shortages as a result, Unite union warns
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NewsFresh Direct partners with Love British Food
Link with Love British Food is seen as a natural extension of Fresh Direct’s Best of British campaign