Soft Fruit Panel

The Panel consists of representatives elected by levy payers, and where appropriate, independent experts are co-opted to provide technical advice. Invitations are also extended to appropriate trade body representatives.

Harriet Duncalfe - knowledge of soft fruit production in East Anglia Panel Chairman Maltmas Farm, Cambridgeshire 01945 860287

Lindrea Latham Technical Manager HDC, Kent 01732 848 383

Scott Raffle Communications Manager HDC, Kent 01732 848 383

Elected members representing the interests of growers

John Clark - knowledge of soft fruit production in Kent
Kent
01622 729701

Peter Gray - knowledge of PYO soft fruit production
Grays of Wokingham Ltd, Berkshire
01189 785 386

Rupert Hargreaves - knowledge of general soft fruit production and propagation
Hargreaves Plants Ltd, Lincolnshire
01406 366 300

Paul Harrold - knowledge of general soft fruit production
Sunclose Farm, Cambridgeshire
01223 860 754

Tom Maynard - knowledge of bush fruit production (GSK-grower)
Maynards, East Sussex
01580 200 619

Stephen McGuffie - knowledge of soft fruit production in the West Midlands
New Farm Produce Ltd, Staffordshire
01543 256 022

Tim Place -knowledge of general soft fruit production
Place UK Ltd, Norfolk
01692 536 225

Peter Thomson - knowledge of soft fruit production in Scotland
T Thomson (Blairgowrie) Ltd, Perthshire
01250 875 500

Technical and scientific advisors

Kevin Workman
UAP Ltd, Suffolk
07802 981080

John Atwood
ADAS, Suffolk
01473 823 460

Julie Graham
Scottish Crop Research Institute, Dundee
01382 56 2731

Graham Moore
Farm Advisory Services Team Ltd, Kent
07738 885 820

Richard Harnden
KG Fruits Ltd, Kent
01892 830 490

David Simpson
East Malling Research, Kent
01732 843 833

Nicola Spence
Central Science Laboratories, York
01904 462 000

Courtesy members

Chris Hartfield
NFU, Warwickshire

A representative from Defra
Defra, London
020 7238 1526

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