In your field: Dan Hawes - "It's only farmers who visit other farms on their day off"

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's only farmers who visit other farms on their day off"

Bish bash bosh, that's the first part of the job done. I am happy to report everything is in and planted – that is more than three million strawberry plants in the field nursery, plus another million...

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