Over 70 participants attended the soft fruits winter meeting this year in the Malmaison, Dundee to hear a wide range of talks and discussion on the future of the industry. Following the formal presentations, our first stakeholders' event on ‘securing the future of the UK soft fruit industry’ was held.
- Reuse growing media for circular horticulture by Bart Vandecasteele (ILVO)
- Substrate materials in the UK – direction of travel? By Paul Alexander (BULRUSH)
- Plant Health: Protecting Scotland’s Horticulture by Gerry Saddler (Chief Plant Health Officer for Scotland-SASA)
- The Advanced Plant Growth Centre – Accelerating Breeding and Management to Safeguard UK Horticulture by Rob Hancock (JHI)
- Bees and buzz pollination in crops: The potential for matching bee vibrations and buzz pollinated crops to improve fruit yield by Lorna Graham
- Challenges for the UK Soft Fruit Industry by Louise Sutherland (British Berry Growers R&D Chair)
- Crop Trials at JHL by Evangelia Chatzaki (JHL)
- Horticulture Team Update by Richard Cameron (OMEX)
- What will affect future Scottish horticulture production? by Ali Karley (JHI)
- Hyperspectral imaging for high throughput QTL detection in raspberry by Dominic Williams (JHI)
- The novel use of remote tools to study plant-pollinator interactions in Scottish fruit crops by Jane Devlin (University of Aberdeen)
- Progress of the Raspberry & Blackberry Breeding Programme at James Hutton by Nicky Jennings (JHL)
- How do soft fruit and pathogens interact with beneficial fungi? By Hazel Marsden (JHI)
- From Bits to Byites Software Development for Genetics, Genetic Resources, Plant Breeding and Genebanks by Paul Shaw (JHI)
- Understanding Spotted Wing Drosophila population dynamics and host preference in Scotland as a basis for pest control by Ali Karley (JHI)
