Warwickshire, England, 29-9-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — Defra’s allocation of the EU farming support package will provide a welcome cash boost but more action needs to be taken in order to make a long term difference to many British dairy farmers who … Read the full press release
Warwickshire, England, 29-9-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — The NFU has begun its search for a new Director General to play a leading role in supporting English and Welsh farmers and growers. An advert will be placed in the print edition of the … Read the full press release
Nearly 600 million tonnes of raw material, containing from 7 to 13.7 percent of potassium oxide, used for the production of fertilizers. This, according to preliminary estimates, may be found in several adjacent deposits of potassium-magnesium salts and rock salts … Read the full press release
Operational management in three divisions: Pharmaceuticals, Consumer Health and Crop Science / Dieter Weinand, Erica Mann and Liam Condon appointed to the Bayer Board of Management / Dr. Hartmut Klusik succeeds Michael König as a member of the Board of … Read the full press release
Posted in Agriculture, Germany, Healthcare, Pharma & Biotech, Science
Tagged Bayer, consumer health, Crop Science, Dieter Weinand, Dr. Hartmut Klusik, Erica Mann, Liam Condon, pharmaceuticals
15 new and pipeline products in crop protection: peak sales over $6 billion Trait revenue set to more than double; expanded pipeline Highest R&D productivity in the industry Stein, Switzerland, 17-9-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — At its research facility in Stein, Switzerland, Syngenta … Read the full press release
Posted in Agriculture, Chemicals, Science, Switzerland
Tagged chemistry, seeds and traits, Syngenta
Alliance formed by growers’ associations, Rabobank and Dutch government agencies Utrecht, Netherlands, 16-9-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — Five major growers’ associations– collectively accounting for more than 70% of all Dutch greenhouse crops – formally signed an agreement on Friday that will … Read the full press release
Posted in Agriculture, Banks, Netherlands
Tagged Dutch government, Dutch growers’ associations, greenhouse horticulture, Rabobank
To meet the requirements of Asian cities, researchers are adapting an idea they have already applied in Germany for comprehensive water management: They are developing a concept for reducing water use, treating wastewater and extracting fertilizer for a strip of … Read the full press release
Fund established to help farmers concerned about a potential delay to crucial 2015 EU payments, normally received in December each year Support will be offered to the Group’s farming customers in the event of Basic Payment Scheme payments being paid … Read the full press release
Turin, Italy, 24-8-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — Many industries are coping with new challenges and finding opportunities in the growing amount of digital content across languages, sectors and domains. Functionality like machine translation, entity recognition, or multilingual linked data sets – based … Read the full press release
Posted in Agriculture, European Union, Food & Beverage, Internet & Online, News, Technology, Travel
Tagged content enrichment, digital, eBook, ICT, language, linked data, localisation, multilingual, semantic, translation
Innovative biological insecticide for use in greenhouses / Market launch in Europe planned in 2017 / Bayer’s first active ingredient approved under regulation EC 1107/2009 Monheim, 18-8-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — Bayer CropScience has reached an important milestone towards the market introduction … Read the full press release
Outstanding performance in the Salt Business Higher average prices in the Potash and Magnesium Products business unit Operating earnings (EBIT I) up 32 % to € 496 million ‘Fit for the Future’ delivers expected results Legacy Project still on schedule … Read the full press release
Posted in Agriculture, Business, Chemicals, Germany, Management, Metals and Minerals
Tagged Dr. Burkhard Lohr, K+S, Norbert Steiner
SOUTHAMPTON, 5-8-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — Reflecting Photonics, the International Year of Light garden sponsored by the University of Southampton, was recently voted Best Garden in the People’s Choice Awards at the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) show at Tatton Park. Sponsored by … Read the full press release
The Hague, 3-7-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — Nutreco and Oxfam Novib start a partnership in Nigeria. The two organisations have launched a one year pilot project in Nigeria to promote sustainable and inclusive fish farming for smallholder farmers. Aquaculture in Nigeria … Read the full press release
Posted in Agriculture, Business, Management, Netherlands
Tagged Farah Karimi, fish farming, Knut Nesse, Nutreco, Oxfam Novib, smallholder farmers, sustainable
Tarnów, Poland, 25-6-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — The General Meeting of Fertilizers Europe appointed two Grupa Azoty representatives to the Fertilizers Europe Board. Marek Kapłucha was appointed Vice-President of the FE Board for another two-year term of office, and Andrzej Skolmowski was reappointed to … Read the full press release
Monheim, 11-6-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — Bayer CropScience has taken a large step forward to stop the distribution of counterfeit crop protection products containing the active ingredient spirotetramat. Chinese manufacturer Hebei Sannong Agrochemical and distributor Nanjing Heyuan recently accepted the litigation filed … Read the full press release
Posted in Agriculture, Chemicals, Germany, Law, Management
Tagged anjing Heyuan, Bayer CropScience, Dr. Joerg Thomaier, Gerwin Bouillon, Hebei Sannong Agrochemical, Wang Guangming
LIVERPOOL, 11-6-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — Scientists at the University of Liverpool are working to decode DNA modifications, known as ‘epigenetic marks’, in the wheat genome to understand its impact on crop variation. Leading an international consortium of scientists from Cold Spring … Read the full press release
LONDON, 22-5-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — The EBRD organised a high level meeting in Kiev yesterday to deepen its partnership with Ukraine’s government and agribusinesses to boost investment and exports, while reinforcing the role and competitiveness of the private sector. Agribusiness … Read the full press release
AkzoNobel is helping customers in China to make more efficient use of limited land resources by expanding its portfolio of locally produced agrochemical products. AMSTERDAM, 15-5-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — China has a well-documented shortage of arable land, which means sustainable … Read the full press release
Posted in Agriculture, Business, Chemicals, Netherlands
Tagged agrochemical products, AkzoNobel, John Cate, Mr. Yu Dong
Integrated sales up one percent at constant exchange rates Reported sales impacted by currency; full year earnings guidance maintained Robust performance in Europe: effective risk management in the CIS Delayed start to North American season BASEL, 17-4-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — … Read the full press release
Posted in Agriculture, Chemicals, Financial, Management, Switzerland
Tagged herbicides, Lawn and Garden, Mike Mack, risk management, Syngenta
OSLO, 2-4-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — Sapa’s President & CEO Svein Tore Holsether has informed the Board of Directors that he will leave Sapa to take over as President & CEO for the Norwegian fertilizers group Yara International ASA. He will … Read the full press release
LONDON, 1-4-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — BBSRC’s Animal Health Research Club (ARC) has announced over £6M of funding for research to improve the health of livestock. Eight studies will take place at institutions around England and Scotland in farmed fish, poultry, … Read the full press release
Posted in Agriculture, Education, Financial, Science, United Kingdom
Tagged Animal Health, Animal Health Research Club, Animal Welfare, BBSRC, Dr Jun Zou, Dr Mark Mooney, farming, food livestock, improve the health of livestock, Professor Chris Secombes, Professor Gordon Allan, Professor James Bron, Professor Randolph Richards, Professor Sandra Adams, Queen's University of Belfast, Scottish Government, The Roslin Institute, The University of Warwick, University of Aberdeen, University of Stirling
LONDON, 19-3-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is providing a US$ 20 million loan, to partly finance the working capital of Medsofts, a family-owned company based in Egypt and one of the key agricultural commodity … Read the full press release
Posted in Agriculture, Banks, Business, Commodities, Financial
Tagged agribusiness, agricultural commodity importers in Egypt, EBRD, Gilles Mettetal, Medsofts, Tarek Tawfik
This is a joint press release by Nutreco N.V. and SHV Investments Ltd. pursuant to the provisions of section 16 paragraph 1 and section 17 paragraph 1 of the Decree on Public Takeover Bids (Besluit openbare biedingen Wft) in connection … Read the full press release
Posted in Agriculture, Business, Financial, Investment, Management, Netherlands
Tagged Nutreco, Post-Closing Acceptance Period, SHV Holdings N.V., SHV Investments Ltd
US photographer Mustafah Abdulaziz wins Professional Commission German photographer Benedikt Partenheimer wins Open Competition Winners exhibition at Somerset House to run from March 11 to April 10 BASEL, 11-3-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — The winners of the Syngenta Photography Award 2015 … Read the full press release
2014/15 campaign extends for a total of 177 days Sugar production volume amounts to around one million tonnes (of which 0.5 million tonnes in Austria) VIENNA, 10-3-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — At the weekend AGRANA successfully concluded its processing of sugar … Read the full press release
Posted in Agriculture, Austria, Business, Food & Beverage, Industrial, Management
Tagged AGRANA, processing of sugar beet, sugar mills in Leopoldsdorf and Tulln
Newcastle, UK, 13-2-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — Defra today announced £14.5 million of new investment in the Food and Environment Research Agency through a joint venture with Capita and Newcastle University. Capita plc (‘Capita’) has been selected, following a competitive procurement process, as the … Read the full press release
Fife, Scotland, 6-2-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — Research at the Universities of St Andrews and Dundee has confirmed that levels of neonicotinoid insecticides accepted to exist in agriculture cause both impairment of bumblebees’ brain cells and subsequent poor performance by bee colonies. The … Read the full press release
In the first three quarters of 2014|15, pressure on prices in the Sugar segment and one-time structural effects in the Fruit segment led to significant reductions in revenue and EBIT. VIENNA, 14-1-2015 — /EuropaWire/ — In the first nine months … Read the full press release
Posted in Agriculture, Austria, Financial, Management
WIESBADEN, 22-12-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — Im Herbst 2014 haben die Landwirte in Deutschland auf 5,56 Millionen Hektar Ackerland Wintergetreide für die kommende Ernte 2015 ausgesät. Wie das Statistische Bundesamt (Destatis) mitteilt, liegt die Aussaatfläche von Wintergetreide für die Ernte 2015 damit … Read the full press release
Posted in Agriculture, Business, Germany, Management, Marketing
Tagged Destatis, Gerste, Herbstaussaaten zur Ernte 2015, Raps, Weizen
WIESBADEN, 22-12-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — In autumn 2014, farmers in Germany sowed winter grain on 5.56 million hectares of land for the next harvest of 2015. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that the area cultivated with winter grain for the 2015 … Read the full press release
Posted in Agriculture, Business, Germany, Management, Marketing
Tagged Destatis, during autumn, Farmers in Germany, winter grain
Drought-tolerant tomatoes, improved wheat and grass pea could provide crops for the future LONDON, 2-12-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — Seven new research projects have been launched today to help provide new or improved crops for the future. The projects involve collaborations … Read the full press release
Major step forward in tackling the global problem of herbicide-resistant weeds Frankfurt / Main, 20-11-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — Herbicide-resistant weeds are a growing global problem. The official opening of Bayer CropScience’s Weed Resistance Competence Center (WRCC) in Frankfurt on 19 November … Read the full press release
Posted in Agriculture, Business, Chemicals, Germany
Tagged Bayer CropScience, herbicide-resistant weeds, Weed Resistance Competence Center
The Department for International Development (DFID) and the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) partner with four UK Research Councils to fund the Zoonoses and Emerging Livestock Systems (ZELS) programme. 11 projects are funded in 11 developing countries involving 19 … Read the full press release
Posted in Agriculture, Financial, Healthcare, Pharma & Biotech, Science, United Kingdom
Tagged Animal Health, Animal Welfare, Baroness Northover, BBSRC, Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), Dr Melanie Welham, Emerging Livestock Systems, farming, the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl), the Department for International Development (DFID), the Economic and Social Sciences Research Council (ESRC), the Medical Research Council (MRC) and the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), Zoonoses
Oslo, 27-10-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — Yara International ASA delivered strong third-quarter results, with record fertilizer deliveries and continued margin benefit from lower European gas price. “Yara reports a strong third-quarter result with record deliveries, reflecting both organic growth and the … Read the full press release
Posted in Agriculture, Business, Chemicals, Financial, Management, Norway
Diverse plant communities are more successful and enable higher crop yields than pure monocultures, a European research team headed by ecologists from the University of Zurich has discovered. The scientists are convinced that the cultivation of crop mixtures in agriculture … Read the full press release
Warwickshire, England, 24-9-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — NFU Sugar, in conjunction with British Sugar, is launching its 2015 Sugar Industry Programme (SIP); an initiative designed to engage younger growers through a dedicated training and development programme. Now in its fifth year, … Read the full press release
Posted in Agriculture, Management, Society, United Kingdom
Tagged 2015 Sugar Industry Programme, Emma Mundy, NFU Sugar, William Martin
Oslo, 23-9-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — Yara International ASA confirms it is in discussions with CF Industries regarding a potential merger of equals transaction. The discussions are at an early stage, and there can be no assurances that these discussions will … Read the full press release
Posted in Agriculture, Business, Management, Norway
Tagged CF Industries, Yara International ASA
The acquisition of Miller-St. Nazianz, Inc. marks the addition of a key product that will further advance New Holland Agriculture’s worldwide crop production capabilities. Basildon, 4-9-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — CNH Industrial N.V. (NYSE: CNHI / MI: CNHI) announced today that it has … Read the full press release
€20 million loan to address working capital needs of major agricultural holding LONDON, 29-8-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is providing a €20 million loan to Astarta, Ukraine’s leading agribusiness operator and sugar producer. The … Read the full press release
Posted in Agriculture, Banks, Financial, Ukraine, United Kingdom
Tagged Astarta, EBRD, Sevki Acuner, The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Viktor Ivanchyk
Brussels, 29-8-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — The European Commission has announced today that it will open Private Storage Aid for butter, Skimmed Milk Powder (SMP) and certain cheeses in order to alleviate the impact of Russian restrictions on imports of EU dairy products … Read the full press release
Posted in Agriculture, Belgium, European Union, Food & Beverage, Russia
Tagged Dacian Cioloş, European Commission, European dairy market, Private Storage Aid
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