Íæż½ã½ã

In your field: Dan Hawes - "Recent cold weather has worked massively in our favour, as far as plants are concerned anyhow"

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

clock • 3 min read
In your field: Dan Hawes - "Recent cold weather has worked massively in our favour, as far as plants are concerned anyhow"

January soon rolls round, and so does the cold weather. Learning from past mistakes, I made sure we got the drippers out of the pots we want to move asap, before we got the minus figures. Believe me, you...

To continue reading...

Already a member? Login for full access.

New to Íæż½ã½ã? Register for 1 free article per week or become a member for unlimited access to essential farming news and insights.

article-img-580x358
Join Now

 

2018 CASE-IH 120 LUXXUM

£±Ê°¿´¡

NEW HOLLAND T6.180DCT

£±Ê°¿´¡

New Holland BOOMER 25 Compact Tractor

£±Ê°¿´¡

More on In your field

In your field: Dan Hawes – "Everything has started to grow, the ground has finally dried out... Long may the sun continue"
In your field

In your field: Dan Hawes – "Everything has started to grow, the ground has finally dried out... Long may the sun continue"

Dan Hawes grew up on an arable farm in Suffolk and now produces strawberry and raspberry plants outside, under tunnels and in glasshouses for the UK fruit market with Blaise Plants, sister company to Hugh Lowe Farms, Kent

Íæż½ã½ã
clock 31 March 2025 • 2 min read
In your field: Alan Carter – "When you have been in a parlour since the pushchair, you can take all this for granted"
In your field

In your field: Alan Carter – "When you have been in a parlour since the pushchair, you can take all this for granted"

Alan Carter farms in partnership with his parents, Paul and Christine, on a 162-hectare (400-acre), 400-cow dairy unit at Constantine, Cornwall, supplying Saputo

Íæż½ã½ã
clock 31 March 2025 • 3 min read
In your field: Dan Jones - "What struck me most was Argentinian farmers' deep respect for nature"
In your field

In your field: Dan Jones - "What struck me most was Argentinian farmers' deep respect for nature"

Dan farms 650 ewes at the National Trust-owned Parc Farm on the Great Orme, a limestone headland which rises up 208 metres (682 feet) on the North Wales coast near Llandudno

Íæż½ã½ã
clock 23 March 2025 • 3 min read