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
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