Growtrade.ie Newsletter - June 17, 2021

Horticulture industry more optimistic about Brexit than other sectors

Horticulture | Bord Bia’s Risk Readiness Radar captures the high-level risks facing the industry across key areas such as sustainability, Covid-19, and Brexit

Baby Elegance planting 25,000 native trees in Roscommon forest

Horticulture | Sustainability initiative is being carried out in conjunction with Veon

Teagasc webinar to discuss wood fibre and growing media

Horticulture | Webinar will provide an opportunity to delve into the production of one of the components in current and future professional growing media mixes

Garden Connect whitepaper highlights call for online solutions in challenging times

Retail | In the paper, retailers discuss their transition to online, and the challenges and opportunities they encountered

Contract for artificial pitch construction and associated works

Sports & Parks | Gaelic football club seeks artificial sportsturf construction professionals for the construction of an artificial pitch and associated works

HSA issue guidance on safety for seasonal horticulture workers

HSA has provided this guide in over 10 languages as 75% of employees working in horticulture in Ireland were non-Irish nationals

Data centre community pledges to plant 1,000 orchards across Ireland

Orchards in the Community’ plan will see Host in Ireland work in collaboration with the Irish National Biodiversity Data Centre as the first project to enable tracking of pollination service

ICL’s SpeedwayTotal is the spray adjuvant of choice for Weedfree

Weedfree provides weed control and vegetation clearance services to the rail industry, local authorities, industry, utilities and power generators