In your field: Dan Hawes - "February is an important month for us in the strawberry propagation world"

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 - "February is an important month for us in the strawberry propagation world"

After January seemed to go on forever, this month has almost gone already. February is an important month for us in the strawberry propagation world, as it's the time we receive all our mother plant...

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