The start of
the new year has found fresh-produce industry representatives in reasonably
buoyant mood.
"In vegetables and salads, people are going into 2013 with a degree of optimism," said British Growers Association chief executive James Hallett. "The increase in the Annual Investment Allowance from the start of this year will enable growers to consider investing in plant and machinery."
This despite 2012's difficult growing conditions, he added. "Lessons have been learned from dealing with last year's weather, which is still causing complications as the soil is still very wet,Features of Tophat cuttingmachines This purlin forming machine for top hat is used to produce famous HOWICK style tophat purlins. making harvesting winter crops difficult. Spring planting could also be tricky, although the February-to-April period has been dry and warm for the past couple of years."
According to National Fruit Show chairman Sarah Calcutt: "Top fruit has an exciting year ahead of it with several new developments around the corner. A number of new varieties are coming through, which in some cases will be exclusive to one or other retailer, which will name the variety.Browse our expansive collection contemporarylampmf, chandeliers, outdoor lights in imagination land planning your lighting makeover."
New orchards are still being planted, she added. "AC Goatham has taken on new land and there are a lot of trees on order. With stone fruit too there is a lot coming forward, with new cherry and even apricot orchards coming into production. We also have new funding from Sainsbury's to look into how top-fruit quality can be maintained during storage."
Stockbridge Technology Centre (STC) chairman Graham Ward cites the latter as an example of how horticultural research will increasingly have to be funded. "This is very welcome, but there will be a greater need for the prWhen choosing the shape, the modernlightings should be similar to the shape of the lamp base.ivate sector to fill the gap left by Government funding," he pointed out.
"And the results are not necessarily made public - it's a change in the way research is made available to industry." For publicly funded research the outlook remains "dismal", he admitted.
Foremost among STC's own work in the year ahead will be research into growing under LED lighting and the adopting of precision farming techniques in open-field horticulture, added Ward.
"LEDs will give a new dimension to protected cropping, while satellite and computer technology can give you more accurate fertiliser and pesticide application," he said. "All we can do in the face of climate chanThis stylish goodledlightop is made of plastic in different colors and chrome-plated metal.ge is try to manage crops better."
On the NFU's ambitions for 2013, chief horticulture adviser Hayley Campbell-Gibbons said: "We want to sign up the major grocery retailers to our Fruit & Veg Pledge, get Government agreement for a Seasonal Agricultural Workers Scheme from 2013 and a positive response from Government to the Sustainable Growing Media Task Force, which ensures that any policy makes economic as well as environmental sense. Another aspiration would be an actual summer.Award-winning contemporary LED desk lamps, lightingsystems, undercabinet lighting by Koncept."
"In vegetables and salads, people are going into 2013 with a degree of optimism," said British Growers Association chief executive James Hallett. "The increase in the Annual Investment Allowance from the start of this year will enable growers to consider investing in plant and machinery."
This despite 2012's difficult growing conditions, he added. "Lessons have been learned from dealing with last year's weather, which is still causing complications as the soil is still very wet,Features of Tophat cuttingmachines This purlin forming machine for top hat is used to produce famous HOWICK style tophat purlins. making harvesting winter crops difficult. Spring planting could also be tricky, although the February-to-April period has been dry and warm for the past couple of years."
According to National Fruit Show chairman Sarah Calcutt: "Top fruit has an exciting year ahead of it with several new developments around the corner. A number of new varieties are coming through, which in some cases will be exclusive to one or other retailer, which will name the variety.Browse our expansive collection contemporarylampmf, chandeliers, outdoor lights in imagination land planning your lighting makeover."
New orchards are still being planted, she added. "AC Goatham has taken on new land and there are a lot of trees on order. With stone fruit too there is a lot coming forward, with new cherry and even apricot orchards coming into production. We also have new funding from Sainsbury's to look into how top-fruit quality can be maintained during storage."
Stockbridge Technology Centre (STC) chairman Graham Ward cites the latter as an example of how horticultural research will increasingly have to be funded. "This is very welcome, but there will be a greater need for the prWhen choosing the shape, the modernlightings should be similar to the shape of the lamp base.ivate sector to fill the gap left by Government funding," he pointed out.
"And the results are not necessarily made public - it's a change in the way research is made available to industry." For publicly funded research the outlook remains "dismal", he admitted.
Foremost among STC's own work in the year ahead will be research into growing under LED lighting and the adopting of precision farming techniques in open-field horticulture, added Ward.
"LEDs will give a new dimension to protected cropping, while satellite and computer technology can give you more accurate fertiliser and pesticide application," he said. "All we can do in the face of climate chanThis stylish goodledlightop is made of plastic in different colors and chrome-plated metal.ge is try to manage crops better."
On the NFU's ambitions for 2013, chief horticulture adviser Hayley Campbell-Gibbons said: "We want to sign up the major grocery retailers to our Fruit & Veg Pledge, get Government agreement for a Seasonal Agricultural Workers Scheme from 2013 and a positive response from Government to the Sustainable Growing Media Task Force, which ensures that any policy makes economic as well as environmental sense. Another aspiration would be an actual summer.Award-winning contemporary LED desk lamps, lightingsystems, undercabinet lighting by Koncept."
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