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You will be part of a grower organisation commissioning high quality research of direct relevance to grower and associated businesses.

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You can influence and contribute to setting the forward research agenda.

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Access to research reports or summaries relevant to your business from the ‘members only’ section of our website or from the HDC office.

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Ten copies each year of the magazine ‘HDC News’ will keep you informed of R&D developments in the industry.

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Access to the pesticide gap analysis, detailing the most pressing crop protection needs of the horticultural industry resulting from the UK and EU pesticide reviews via the HDC website.

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HDC-funded approvals for pesticides under the Specific Off-Label Approval scheme relevant to your business emailed or faxed automatically, free of charge.

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Free weekly email service highlighting new research/communications activities and initiatives.

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Factsheets relevant to your business automatically mailed free of charge.

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Grower Events – you or any member of your staff can attend HDC conferences, seminars, open days, workshops and grower walks where you can see research in practice.

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Receive HDC publications eg grower guides, pest and disease identification cards, etc, DVD based training packages, computer models and other HDC services.

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If you join part way through the year, you will receive any information already sent out during that membership year upon acceptance of your membership application and settlement of your invoice. As with all other information this will be mailed directly to your designated technical contact.