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In your field: Dan Hawes - "It is amazing just how much better things look with a bit of greenery in"

Dan Hawes grew up on an arable farm in Suffolk and now produces strawberry and raspberry plants for the UK fruit market with Blaise Plants, sister company to Hugh Lowe Farms, Kent. The business grows outside, under tunnels and in glasshouses and produces more than four million plants a year. The arable side includes environmental schemes, with a mix of wheat, oilseed rape, beans and barley crops

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In your field: Dan Hawes - "It is amazing just how much better things look with a bit of greenery in"

Blink and you miss it. It's busy in the propagation world, and the last few weeks have flown by. Planting All the raspberry plugs have arrived and been planted. These will produce what we call longcanes,...

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