Farmers and growers have been reminded they may risk a fine if they do not comply with their legal pension duties. 

Langham Wine Estate is marking 2024 as the ‘year of awards’, after recently receiving a combined six trophies at two regionally recognised awards, including four at the WineGB West Awards and two at the WineGB Wessex Awards. 

The trading divisions of the international businesses Devos and Wouters will merge from August 2025 under the name Devos-Wouters. 

Wine merchant Laithwaites has recently concluded its Grape Britain campaign, revealing wine preferences of people living across the UK.

Spirits manufacturer Cumbria Distilling Co. has announced its double win at a national gin competition. 

Scottish berry breeder and producer, Angus Soft Fruits, has celebrated its 30 years in business during the annual conference. 

Wilkin & Sons is world-renowned for its jams, produced in Tiptree, Essex for over 130 years – with its Little Scarlet strawberry jam even finding favour with 007. Sarah Kidby visited the farms and factory to learn more about its enterprise.

Australian winemaking company, Treasury Wine Estates, has announced that an Italian wine brand, called Belorante, hits the UK market shelves.   

The Garden Industry Manufacturer’s Association (GIMA) has announced that it has raised over £20,000 for Greenfingers throughout 2024 as the charity heads into its 25th anniversary year. 

The cider, crafted using apples grown on Hartpury’s heritage orchard and blended with locally sourced cider apples, is a product of the hands-on efforts of the agriculture students from Hartpury University, who have been involved in every step of the process. 

With growers in parts of the country now suffering the effects of the eighth wettest winter on record in 2023/24, Sarah Kidby spoke to apple and pear growers for an update on this year’s harvest.

A Cambridge-based developer of harvesting robots, Fieldwork Robotics, has announced its latest collaboration with manufacturer of autonomous and collaborative mobile robot platforms, Burro.