Machinery
Weeding is one of the most tedious, time-consuming and costly jobs on a vegetable farm, and farmers desperately need alternatives.
N.Ireland
The Northern Ireland Mushroom Growers Association has called on the NI Executive to safeguard the Fruit and Vegetable Aid Scheme (FVAS).
Heavy discounting by leading supermarkets of the vegetables which are a mainstay of the traditional Christmas dinner is “extremely....
A team of Harper Adams University researchers have been awarded funding for a project boosting climate change resilience in crops...
Arable
Great British Pea Week will return for a ninth year next month to celebrate the UK pea vining sector, which produces 2 billion portions/year.
Researchers from the University of Essex will try to grow onions outside traditional soil-based...
Agri-Business
The government's response to the Horticulture Sector Committee Report does not 'adequately address the challenges facing the sector'
Lidl has announced an investment of over £70 million into British root vegetable suppliers through...
90% of UK households will have a British turkey this Christmas, and 8-9 million are set to be...
Marks and Spencer (M&S) has confirmed that it is now working with a Co. Armagh vegetable grower...
Virgin Money's head of agriculture, Brian Richardson, has said that the recent food shortages of some produce in supermarkets may serve as a "salutary lesson that might teach us to value UK farm produce more".
Recent figures from the British Retail Consortium (BRC) have shown that food inflation is at its...
Minister Mark Spencer has asked retailers to review how they work with farmers amid the current fruit and vegetable shortages across the UK.
Other
New research from Red Tractor and YouGov has revealed that parents of young children are most impacted when it comes to the weekly food shop as the cost-of-living crisis continues to hit pockets.
Herbicide application rates within vegetable crops can be reduced substantially through the use of mechanical weed control between rows while band spraying herbicide only within rows.
More can be done by farmers to ensure the UK has nutritional security as well as food security during the years ahead.
World News
Astronauts have successfully grown cabbage on the International Space Station, having previously grown lettuce and flowers.
As part of a new research project, leaflets on how consumers can eat less meat might be provided at Sainsburys supermarkets in the UK.
BelOrta is one of the largest suppliers of fruit and vegetables in Europe and in 2015 the Belgian Co-op generated a turnover of €450m.
There appears to be an increasing push at European level for fruit and vegetable growers to establish producer organisations.
EU
EU agri-food exports rose slightly in January compared to January 2015 to €9.3 billion, according to the latest figures from the Commission.
Rural Life
Some 33% of parents have admitted to bribing their children to eat vegetables, with broccoli and carrots topping the list, according to a survey from Tesco.
Non-harmonised taxes on high sugar, salt and fat products such as soft drinks, sweet and salty foodstuffs do induce a reduction of the consumption of the taxed products.
