Tomato news archive – Page 48
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ArticlePushing the market for melons
The melon sector has had a number of challenges facing it lately, but producers are fighting back with investment and NPD, as Eurofruit’s Steven Maxwell and Gill McShane explain
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ArticleIt'sFresh! tomatoes head for Tesco
Thanet Earth’s It’sFresh! tomatoes are rolling out in Tesco stores from 13 May.
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ArticleSalads await summer of sales
Salads are a firm fixture on the shelves as summer dawns, but producers will be looking nervously to the skies to help spark the expected sales rush
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ArticleRight royal new packs for Jersey
The Jersey Royal Company is supplying the island’s iconic potatoes to Asda this year with a revolutionary new packaging format aimed at reducing food waste.
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A welcome splash of colour on the shelf
Colours play a major part in influencing customer choice, and when something packaged differently from the norm arrives it is
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Article5 A DAY? Make mine a muffin, say kids
Many children believe blueberry muffins, jam, milk, cereal and water count as part of their 5 A DAY, a poll has found.
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ArticleNot just for Jubilee
It’s been a cautious start for the UK tomato season, with good light levels getting the crop off to an early start, only to be stunted by dull weather mid-spring. But ahead of a summer of opportunity, there is optimism for a lasting sales boost. Elizabeth O’Keefe reports
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ArticleThanet Earth unveils plan for fourth glasshouse
Thanet Earth will begin construction on its fourth glasshouse this summer, three years after the first three greenhouses on the Kent site became operational.
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ArticleThanet Earth to open new greenhouse
After overcoming financial difficulties, the joint venture glasshouse complex is to expand with a new tomato facility
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ArticleUK tomatoes hope for red, white and blue glory
The UK tomato season stands to get a sales boost this year from the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee as well as the Olympic and Paralympic Games this summer.
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Brands finding a place on retail shelves
Charles Dickens, writing The Pickwick Papers, immortalised the Garden of England’s reputation for apples, pears, hops
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ArticleBudgens makes early English start
Budgens has launched its English tomato season six weeks ahead of usual.
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Poor prices hit Spanish tomato growers
Spanish cherry tomato producers have lost on average €30,000 per hectare so far this season as a result of the “poor average prices” that have been received since the campaign began in September 2011.
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Greenery makes Nature Count
The Greenery has awarded Nature Counts status to four of its top-flight growers at last week’s Floriade trade show in The Netherlands.
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ArticlePoor prices hit Spanish exporters
Cherry tomato growers have seen income drop by average of €30,000 per hectare during 2011/12 season
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ArticleThe Heston of gardening
TV garden designer David Domoney’s unconventional methods, which include feeding plants with bananas, eggs, beer and even Viagra to keep them happy, have earned him the nickname “the Heston Blumenthal of gardening”. Lisa Kjellsson finds out more about him
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New concepts spring into action on shelf
When temperatures fluctuate, the nation’s diet switches overnight from salads to stews and casseroles, but hope still
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ArticleUK tomato season in early start
UK and Irish production of tomatoes are making inroads into the major multiples as supplies from Spain and Morocco slow.
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ArticleAndalusia’s big fight
As drought continues to plague the south of Spain, growers are fighting an uphill battle both to deliver their harvests and with ongoing low margins. Lisa Kjellsson finds out what the future has in store for the region of Andalusia
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Supermarkets show seasonal strength
Patriotism comes in all sorts of different guises, and anyone who lives on, or has an affinity for the Isle of Wight, will