In your field: Dan Hawes - "Recent cold weather has worked massively in our favour, as far as plants are concerned anyhow"

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 - "Recent cold weather has worked massively in our favour, as far as plants are concerned anyhow"

January soon rolls round, and so does the cold weather. Learning from past mistakes, I made sure we got the drippers out of the pots we want to move asap, before we got the minus figures. Believe me, you...

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