Agricultural Supply Chain Adjudicator
In 2013, the Groceries Code Adjudicator (GCA) was appointed to oversee the relationship between the UK’s largest grocery retailers and their direct suppliers. H...
News & Views
Latest news and views across the fresh produce industry.
Growing Prospects Webinar - Recruitment Skills for the UK Ag and Hort Sector
TIAH has acted in response to recent labour market research highlighting the challenges faced by the agriculture and horticulture sectors, the Growing Prospects...
Response to stakeholder engagement for a new requirement on plants for planting
In July 2024, DEFRA asked for comments on a proposed new requirement on plants for planting. Please find the response to that engagement Here...
Defra Secretary to face MPs in first session of new EFRA Committee
Evidence session The Work of the Department and its Arm’s Length Bodies Tuesday 19 November, 2.30pm, Committee room 6, Palace of Westminster Watch live on pa...
Review of import controls for High-Risk Food and Feed not of Animal Origin as part of Regulation 2019/1793
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) and Food Standards Scotland (FSS) have undertaken a science and evidence-based review of the imported food and feed commodities ...
Pesticide Residues in Food Monitoring Programme now published
New Publication The rolling reporting survey for the official Pesticide Residues in Food Monitoring Programme has now been published. August 2024 data Pesticid...
Pesticide Action Network - Supermarket Ranking Launched
The Pesticide Action Network have released their latest Report outlining their assessment of pesticide policy performance for UK multiple retailers. Criteria ra...
EFRA Committee launch survey to canvas views of stakeholders
The Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee has today launched an online survey that asks stakeholders to contribute their views on the issues they think ...
Spain & UK Agri-Tech Knowledge Exchange Programme 2024/25: Cultivating Collaboration
Building on the success of a knowledge scoping and networking initiative in 2023/24, the UK Agri-Tech Centreis set to launch a series of bilateral knowledge exc...
NCTS Outage Notification 18th November 7.30am
Monday 18th November 2024 between 07.30am- 08.30am. Planned maintenance activities will be undertaken on the NCTS live service on Monday 18th November 2024:N...
Grocery Code Adjudicator Presentation October 2024
The slides from the recent GCA Annual Conference held on 1st October have been published and can be found here: 2024 GCA conference You Gov slides. There is a c...
Plant Health Legislation - Reminder for 9th November 2024
From 9 November 2024, the remaining changes will come into force. This includes: Listing certain pests, based on preliminary assessments, as provisional quarant...