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Experts say threat of mildew and septoria means crops will need 'helping hand'

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

Red Tractor chief executive Jim Moseley told tenant farmers last week that the scheme was a ‘victim of its own success' amid a rising demand for consumer and retailer assurance

Company says more tests will be carried out post-harvest 2024

The winter’s remarkably wet conditions will have led to soil compaction, silting and nutrient losses

Prolonged rain during winter and spring has caused surge in grassland weeds

Government says hemp has potential to 'unlock new revenue streams'

Defra's newly announced Farming Recovery Fund has been called out as an 'injustice' and criticised for being 'ill-informed' with farmers who have suffered 'catastrophic impacts' being told they are not eligible for the Fund

Problems are mounting for growers as fieldwork is hit by further delays, the rising threat of disease and decreased yields

Prolonged rainfall risks leaving plants with 'lazy roots'