In your field – Dan Hawes: "Isn't it good to see British fruit back on the supermarket shelves?"

Dan Hawes produces strawberry and raspberry plants for the UK fruit market with Blaise Plants, Kent. The arable side of the business includes environmental schemes, with a mix of wheat, oilseed rape, beans and barley crops

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In your field – Dan Hawes: "Isn't it good to see British fruit back on the supermarket shelves?"

Strawberry harvest has begun! Isn't it good to see British fruit back on the supermarket shelves and in farm shops? Glasshouse crops Glasshouse crops have started nicely and field crops are about...

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