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In your field: Dan Hawes - "This has to be the most crucial time for us in the propagation world"

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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In your field: Dan Hawes - "This has to be the most crucial time for us in the propagation world"

In the last article, I finished by saying the team will go from six to 80+, and we'll have almost finished the 4.5 million plants we need to strike. Well, we've gone from a team of six to a team peaking...

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