All United Kingdom articles – Page 88
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NewsNFU launches horticultural growth strategy
Strategy sets out actions government should take to enable horticultural growth and deliver on Food Strategy pledge
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NewsLogistics UK 'cautiously optimistic' about new NI trade rules
Britain’s logistics sector expresses ‘cautious optimism’ over new UK-EU Northern Ireland trade agreement
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NewsAbel & Cole hits donation milestone
Box scheme firm has now given over a million portions of fruit and veg to charity
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NewsFresh Leaf Co. hits Iceland shelves
Vertical farm-produced red + green mix is promising longer shelf life and sustainable production values
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NewsEndangered Aisle highlights climate threat to UK favourites
Bananas are one of several everyday essentials under threat from climate change, Fairtrade Foundation warns
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NewsUK grocery inflation breaks new record
One quarter of British shoppers struggling as grocery price inflation goes above 17 per cent for the first time
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NewsWaitrose welcomes early UK spears
Upmarket UK retailer announces earliest ever British asparagus deal
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NewsBoxford and Gardin team up for berry trials
Fruit grower Boxford Farms partners with greenhouse supplier Gardin to test strawberry monitoring technology
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NewsLords opens horticulture inquiry
Industry invited to submit evidence to major inquiry into sector challenges
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NewsWaitrose and Heston to part company
Successful partnership comes to an end after 12 years, with Waitrose focusing on own label
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NewsCoffey NFU performance ‘surreal’, says Batters
NFU president Minette Batters describes Defra secretary conference comments on UK supply crisis as “surreal” and “out of touch”
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NewsUK is ‘missing opportunities’ to import from Uganda
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni calls on Britain to invest in Ugandan fruit and vegetable production but stresses the need for value addition at source
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NewsSeasonal workers ‘guaranteed 32 hours and living wage’
Farming minister Mark Spencer tells NFU conference that guaranteeing seasonal labourers at least 32 hours paid work a week is “decent thing to do”
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NewsDemand for RABI support hits record levels
The national charity supported more farming families in England and Wales than ever in 2022 – but more people in the sector need help, RABI says
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NewsTesco hits UK LEAF certification milestone
Supermarket completes rollout of certification across UK fruit and veg suppliers, with focus turning to its global base
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Comment‘Retailers’ obsession with price is main cause of produce shortages’
GSCOP expert and former senior Asda buyer Ged Futter says the current supply shortages at UK supermarkets are down in large part to retailers’ all-consuming focus on price at the expense of product availability
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NewsMoroccan associations respond to UK tomato shortage
Apefel and Amcom say unusual temperature fluctuations to blame for shortening of tomato supplies from Morocco, as effects of climate change increasingly affecting region
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NewsUK mushroom supplier switches to sustainable packaging
Graphic Packaging International partners with Smithy Mushrooms to supply fibre-based ProducePack Punnets for exotic mushrooms to UK supermarkets
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NewsPuffin Produce to supply Asda with St David’s Day daffodils
Welsh grower to supply Asda stores in Wales with 6m stems ahead of St David’s Day on 1 March
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NewsWatercress fills UK salad supply gap
As supermarkets ration fresh produce, one salad vegetable remains in plentiful supply thanks to its growing methods, says supplier