Fruitful jobs has launched its new website, the site has been overhauled to include specific sections on areas such as SAWS and a more detailed employer section and jobs board.
Tabletops - which have picking costs 30 to 40 per cent lower than for bed-grown strawberry crops - are helping to reduce the adverse impact of a severe labour shortage.
A report compiled for the British government’s Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) has further illustrated the crucial role of seasonal migrant workers and the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Scheme (SAWS) to the horticulture sector.
Elsanta in early at Asda
Some of the first arrivals of UK Elsanta strawberries hit the shelves in Asda today (April 12) – two weeks earlier than last year – supplied by UK berry grower and mark...
AMS/ASDA Local Delivery Initiative 2004
As the final "locally" delivered strawberries disappear from ASDA`s shelves in Kent, Scotland and Cornwall, it gives both ASDA and AMS a chance to reflect on t...
Wellpict European Tunnels
Wellpict European Tunnels (WET Protection) was established earlier this year to provide our prospective customers with quality, affordable multi bay tunnels and unparallelle...
Free Website for our growers
With over 5000 hits a day the Well-Pict European Group (www.wellpict-european.com) is one of the busiest websites in the soft fruit industry. You could be part of our suc...
You don`t need to be nuts to enjoy our strawberries, but...if you`re local it helps.
The success of the delivered direct to store" scheme in 2003 has been greater than we at AMS could have expected, ...
What effect do imported strawberries have on UK growers?
The effect of imported strawberries on UK growers varies on the country from where they come from i.e. the time of year, for example Spanish a...
Good Honest value...celebrating home grown produce
When ASDA rolled our their set of farming pledges, including to buy british where ever possible and to work in partnership with suppliers to improve...
Impressive early results.
Procurement and marketing company Well-Pict European are reporting impressive early results from their attempts to recruit more UK growers to their fold for this season and ...
No More Lies
In February 2003, AMS Ltd started a bespoke research mechanism to measure berry products in every main supermarket (ASDA, Sainsbury, Tesco, Morrisons, Safeway, Somerfield, Budgens). They...
After the storm a ray of sunshine
The site is located on the west coast, in the Laenteja region of Portugal. Acquired some 6 years ago, it has taken longer than expected to turn the farm into a flags...
Palm Power
Since the end of March AMS has been operating with a new Information System - Prophet 2000. Aurel Voiculescu - Head of Information Systems - said "It was a huge task in changing the existi...
AMS Exotic enjoys an active Mexican grape season.
If you listen to the media, this side of the Atlantic is falling into total paranoia about terrorism but as the weather warms up and people start to ...
Well-Pict European South Africa
We are glad to report that Ridgewood Farm is doing very well, despite the rocky start to the year. In February we saw the end of one of the driest summers that we have...
Well Pict European has been crowned Supplier of the Year for the second consecutive year at the Pauleys Supplier Awards.
The soft-fruit supplier was singled out for its continuous outstanding suppo...
Well-Pict Inc; still following the basic principles laid down in the 60`s
Well*Pict Inc, was the inspiration behind the development of Well-Pict European. Since 1969 Well-Pict Inc has been forging it...
Organic Review: Steve Sadler, the "Organic Mechanic"
We are currently supplying grape, plums and kiwi to ASDA with strawberry restarting from the USA. Avocado`s will be up and running from July from ...
Q & A with Martin Seymour
The 2002 Soft Fruit conference gave pre-picked members of the audeience the chance to put a few questions (and gripes) to representatives from the industry. There were a few...
Rhubarb Razzmatazz!!
To many the first mention of Rhubarb takes us back to our old school days when it was served drowning in lumpy custard. These days however things have moved on. Grans soggy crumb...
Well-Pict European Northern
The Northern autumn/winter season has been relatively successful. The yield for most of the growers has been good. Yields of over 4 kilo per metre square are not an except...
South African Update
During January Martin Seymour, David Johnston all paid a visit to their colleagues in South Africa. The Engineered Farming Solutions (EFS) team had made huge developments over th...
A taste of Cornwall
You do not associate Cornwall as a major strawberry growing area, but AMS is in the process of putting Cornwall on the map.
Approximately eight years ago there was a degree of go...
UK Growers
Let me start with a big thank you from ASDA to all it`s UK growers for the 2002 season and we are looking forward to 2003, as there is much more to be had.
Summer 2002 we saw sales of 8m,...
A H Hillers` Right Hand Man
A H Hiller and Son is a family run business based in the Vale of Evesham. It not only crops apples and plums traditional to the area but is presently busy developing their...
Fruitful Jobs can find you staff!
Zena and Jeremy a backpacking couple from New Zealand have taken on two Fruitfuljobs placements. In the summer they worked as camp and field supervisors on a straw...
Organics
AMS are currently supplying two of the four main lines to ASDA which are the grape from South Africa and Kiwi from Europe.
Grape: After working USA Crimson Grape and White seedless from Bra...
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