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In your field: Dan Hawes – "I do feel relaxed and ready to take on work"

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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As we reach October, the plants slow down as the temperatures and day length drops. The guys have gone round and are completing what is probably the last maintenance pass in strawberry plants before...

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