Many congratulations to our tremendous group of speakers for this year’s Spring Conference. The theme for the technical conference presentations was pot plant culture. The group of exciting, international speakers dealt with a wide range of topics from Rob van Tol on trapping Western Flower Thrips and the insect’s perception of colour traps to Jane
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Brian will open the conference (BOOKING), in Peterborough, this year with presentations on plant nutrition and growth regulation (Speaker programme). He is well known as a speaker as well as a researcher and extension worker in floriculture and below you can read some more about his main focus in his horticultural career. North Carolina State
Following on from the Automation Tour on the 17th & 18th September, I thought it would be good to share some of the automation we’ve seen- Vas. Baas Stand alone packing robot, looked futuristic but was in commissioning phase so we did not get to see it run unfortunately. It should be able to produce
BPOA Spring Conference 2019 ‘Optimising your own cutting and seedling propagation’ Tuesday 15th January NFU Agriculture House, Stoneleigh Park Speakers presentations: With such a strong collection of speakers and important details to impart it was quite a task for Chris Need and Mike Smith, chairing the sessions, to keep to the schedule and
The poinsettia growers selected the area of Latina, 80km south of Rome, for this year’s study tour (12th – 14th November 2018). This rural area is a centre for all kinds of horticultural production and its edible and ornamental produce are distribute all over the country and exported to northern Europe. Lazio Province The province
The BPPC has taken up the challenge of engaging with growers throughout the UK and arranged a study tour of the North-West growers, traditionally a very strong area for horticulture and bedding in particular. The tour followed on the North-West’s (and national) favourite annual trade show at Four Oaks Nurseries near Macclesfield and visited two
Minette Batters, NFU President, visited the prize winning stand on Tuesday to see the combination of edible and ornamental horticultural produce and chat with the builders of the display which was lead by Mike Prest. The object of raising the profile of new plant introductions from BPOA members was discussed as well as the new
The 15th Meadow Croft Viola and Pansy Festival opened last week with a Press Day and the welcome return of the evening event, organised by Mike Smith, with a stimulating programme of speakers. The bedding industry is fortunate to have people and companies that are committed to promotion of what they do and the greater
The Spring Conference for BPOA, sponsored by Bulrush and Cambridge HOK, took place last Wednesday (17th January) in the NFU conference centre at Stoneleigh Park. The programme of speakers was a superb mix of technical, business and scientific experts who were fully committed to getting their messages across. All nine presentations were worth the time
BOOKING FORM 2018 SPRING CONFERENCE 2018 This year’s BPOA conference will take place on 17th January at the NFU Conference Suite, Stoneleigh Park, Kenilworth, Warwickshire CV8 2TZ (following the AGM and dinner held at the Stratford Manor Hotel and you can see the
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