In your field: Dan Hawes - "We are working very comfortable hours currently, at around 40 a week"

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 - "We are working very comfortable hours currently, at around 40 a week"

It doesn't seem that long since I last wrote a piece for Farmers Guardian, which I guess means time has passed pretty quick. To work out what has been happening over the past month I've had a flick...

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