Waitrose Predicts Best Ever Year For UK Sweetcorn
British Horticulture
Supermarket Waitrose has said it expects sales of British-grown fresh sweetcorn to be up 30 per cent on last year, with "perfect" growing weather now also driving sales.
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Waitrose Predicts Best Ever Year For UK Sweetcorn
British Horticulture
Supermarket Waitrose has said it expects sales of British-grown fresh sweetcorn to be up 30 per cent on last year, with "perfect" growing weather now also driving sales.
Source
Weeds out of control. Herbicides can no longer control the weeds that threaten crop productivity and food security in the UK because the plants have evolved resistance, and future control must depend on management strategies that reduce reliance on chemicals. So concludes a nationwide epidemiological assessment of the factors that are driving the abundance and spread of the major agricultural weed, black-grass. Source 8z.