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Podcast: HortWeek Podcast
Episode: Biosecurity in the spotlight with Provender Nurseries' Richard McKenna
Description: Provender Nurseries MD Richard McKenna has more than 20 years expereince supplying nursery stock to landscapers.After a couple of rollercoaster years he looks into his crystal ball to predict trade in 2023.On the big issue of biosecurity, he worries that the Government is becoming more detached from the industry and he wonders why nurseries aren;t given compensation when they have to destroy stock which is found with pests and diseases, something he says is happening under the radar at several places UK-wide. The accredited nurseries are bearing too much of the blame...