In Your Field – Dan Hawes: "Our flexible solar panel strips create more energy than we can use"

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: "Our flexible solar panel strips create more energy than we can use"

It was great to see so much support for British fruit when my last piece hit social media. Thanks for buying British when available. But, naturally, someone still got enraged and I still have no clue how...

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