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In Your Field: Dan Hawes - 'We need cold weather to transition the plants'

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

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Dan's business grows outside, under tunnels and in glasshouses and produces more than four million plants a year
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Dan's business grows outside, under tunnels and in glasshouses and produces more than four million plants a year

If you haven't got your British strawberries and raspberries by now you're probably too late. Bar the odd few producers with glasshouses, it is another season done and dusted. And if you wondered...

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