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Accountant predicts 50% fall in arable gross margins for 2020
A survey of East Midlands farmers has found that lower wheat prices and higher running costs cut net profits for the region’s arable farmers for harvest year 2019. The survey, from agricultural accountants Duncan & Toplis, found that on average, farm profits reduced...
National sales manager for UFAC-UK
UK feed supplement manufacturer UFAC-UK has promoted Nigel Bateson to the role of national sales manager as part of a corporate restructure to transform its customer-supplier dynamic. Mr Bateson was previously the company’s area sales manager. Mr Bateson began his...
Timac adds biologicals expertise
Speciality plant nutrition business Timac Agro has acquired the agricultural division of the Spanish biotechnology company New Bio Technic (NBT). NBT retains its molecular diagnostic services and gene technology division. Timac, part of the French multinational Groupe...
Tour des Silos 2020 is on – and going global
The annual Tour des Silos charity cycle ride is to go ahead after all this year, but under a different format. And the Sunday May 31st 2020 event will have participants in at least four continents. Former Openfield grain store development manager Rob Sanderson started...
New technical manager for BASIS
BASIS has engaged Greg Hopkinson as its new technical manager. He will act as the technical interface across the organisation, from CPD training to new course development. Mr Hopkinson has spent the last five years as a Hutchinsons’ agronomist, so brings a wealth of...
Iteris divests ClearAg weather platform
Californian software house Iteris has agreed to sell its ClearAg global digital weather platform to the European digital services group DTN in a $12 million deal which increases the latter’s’ agribusiness exposure. Switzerland-based DTN, part of the TBG holding group,...
Covid-19 affects BayWa’s Q1 grain trading
Cefetra parent BayWa has reported increased earnings on marginally lower revenues from its agribusiness interests in the first three months of 2020. Coronavirus has impacted some areas of operations while benefitting others. The German multinational group’s...