NEW WRITER - In your field: Dan Hawes - "Keep an eye out for early fruit in the shops from the end of the month"

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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NEW WRITER - In your field: Dan Hawes - "Keep an eye out for early fruit in the shops from the end of the month"

When I was offered the chance to write a column for Farmers Guardian, I thought ‘great, a chance to show what goes on in the world of soft fruit to those who might not know', but more importantly, it is...

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