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LEAF Marque and environmental responsibility at G’s

Claire Donovan ~ Technical Director, G’s Fresh

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Organisation and planning! ! G’s Business Intro ! Key Projects " Water - Drip / Sub Irrigation " Icecam / AgriEye/LED " May Farm & Environmental " Birds & Wildlife " Community ! Summary

Established 1952

Guy Shropshire

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G’s Fast Facts

• £500m turnover
• 7,000 employees
• Supplying major supermarkets across the EU and USA
• c. £20m invested p.a.
• 13,142 hectares
• Supplying all major UK retailers

Established 1952

• 24 farmers and growers

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! A group of marketing led family farming businesses ! Growing across 13,142 hectares Europe & Africa

! Dedicated to quality and service; underpinned by strong values

Senegal 384 ha Spain 5,853 ha Poland 374 ha Czech 330ha UK 6,201 ha

The G’s Group

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Crop Establishment & Plant Raising Farming Further Process & Packing Sales & Marketing

Full Vertical Integration

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Crop Portfolio

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Kent

Spring Onions

Sussex

Iceberg Baby Leaf Romaine

Lancashire

(Strategic Partners) Celery Iceberg

Warwickshire

Spring Onions Asparagus Legumes

Shropshire

Spring Onions Organic Beetroot

Gloucestershire

Mushrooms

Dorset

Mushrooms

Cambridgeshire

Celery, Fenland Celery Iceberg, Romaine, Gem Mushrooms Onions Beetroot

Norfolk Coast

Baby Leaf Celery Iceberg, Romaine, Gem Onions

Norfolk

Onions Celery Iceberg, Romaine Radish

Suffolk

Onions

Lincolnshire

Organic Veg

G’s UK Growing Base

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Altitude

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Altitude

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Operations

Nursery Distribution Centres

Greenhouse

Tomato Baby Leaf & Herbs

Open Field

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Spain

Growing Areas

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West Africa Farms ~ Senegal

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G’s Poland G’s Poland

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Investment in the UK business is replicated in Spain & Czech Republic

Laser Land Levelling 24 Row Iceberg Planter Infield Rig Packing Plant Raising Reservoir Development Reservoir Development 90 ha of state-of-the-art Greenhouses

Innovation & Investment - £196m over 10 years

Mushroom Farm & AD Plant

! Demonstration Farm (2000) ! National Award Farm (2006) ! M&S Plan A in Action (2010)

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Cambs Farms

Environmental Management

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LEAF and G’s

To be recognised as

• utstanding, market-led

growers and suppliers of sustainable, healthy fresh produce, and to be at the forefront of the industry in everything we do To supply quality fresh produce that delights our customers every day

Our vison is for a world where we are farming, eating and living sustainably Our mission is to inspire and enable sustainable farming that is prosperous, enriches the environment and engages local communities

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Water use, drip irrigation and sub irrigation Water table control after levelling

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Water use, drip irrigation and sub irrigation

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Vision To be the market leader for innovation in our core products

• ffering high quality healthy, tasty, nutritious food with a

point of difference for our customers and consumers Mission To drive quality, efficiency and sustainability inspiring trust with our customers and consumers through the application

• f leading edge science and technology using industry

partners, expertise & knowledge Icecam/AgriEye/LED

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IceCAM Nursery Sowing Amendments

Sowing begins

Planting begins 300k Extra Sowing due to Spain finishing early 500k Sowing pulled forward due return to average 500k Sowing pushed back due to rising Heat Units 500k Sowing pulled forward due to return to average

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IceCAM Optimisation Suite (OS) – Smith Institute

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Yield Forecasting & Harvest Planning

Determine the number of plants established after transplanting (>98% accuracy) Measure size of individual plants and assess size range Outputs ! Deliver lettuce and celery establishment KPIs on weekly basis ! Correlating plant size with product specifications

Iceberg population with classes based on pixel sizes. Iceberg at Bank Farm 3 over a ‘roddon’ (old waterway). Area of interest in red. (G’s Growers UK 2017)

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Crop Intelligence using Remote Sensing

Manned aircraft Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Satellites

Spectrum Aviation

Hemav Environment Systems

Georeferenced multispectral imagery (3cm/pixel), being able to locate individual plants

Real colour image (right) and Vegetation Map (red/green left) of an iceberg crop at ‘La Raposa 01’ (Cullar- G’s Growers Spain – 2017).

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Crop Scouting Tool

Other uses of vegetation maps: ! Crop scouting ! Wind damage ! Poor planting /drilling ! Weed patches ! Diseases ! Pest damage ! Compaction issues ! Water-logging ! Over spraying ! Compost amendments ! Non-destructive trials assessments (i.e. starter fertiliser)

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Growing Indoors: LED

Plants are subject to environmental variability during propagation and in the field

Temperature Soil Type

Using indoor growing technologies may help reduce the impact

• n final yield

Water availability

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Growing Indoors: LED ! Reduction in production time ! Reductions in substrate use ! Improved consistency ! Reduction in specific disorders Tailor-made transplants Potential Waste Reduction

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May Farm Anaerobic Digestion

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May Farm Anaerobic Digestion

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May Farm Anaerobic Digestion ~ Soil Health

Digestate Spent mushroom compost Straw Compost

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Sustainability

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Sustainability

Rainwater Harvesting Roof-mounted Solar Panels

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Community: A business to be proud of As progressive growers, we make a difference by developing our people, caring for the environment, and supporting local communities

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Community

Farm visits: ! LEAF and Soil Association Demonstration Farms ! Schools ! Public Open days ! Industry Public Open days

Community

Open Farm Sunday

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Community: People

Good Business Sense Good CSR Sense Good Sustainability Management Training Scheme Building school & college links Training & coaching Local recruitment Work experience

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Environment E n c

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e c t i n g n e s t i n g b i r d s Caring for wildlife and in

• ur use of natural

resources

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Environment Environment

Pheromone traps P h a c e l i a m a r g i n s W

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d e r m e s h Beetle banks

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Turtle Dove Project

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The key to sustainable farming is integration In G’s aspiration to be world class farmers we also need to look after our natural resources G’s Sustainable farming operation increases the biodiversity of the ecosystems within our agricultural land base and ensures G’s continues to be a good neighbour and guardian of our unique environment

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