Seeds
New business development team for Elsoms
Independent UK plant breeder Elsoms Seeds has created a new business development team to support its future growth plans, staffed by three internal appointments. The team is to be led by Adrian Hayler as head of business development. He has been responsible for the...
KWS to reprise its OSR establishment risk scheme
Plant breeder KWS-UK is to repeat its 50:50 oilseed rape risk mitigation scheme for a second year. The company launched its oilseed establishment partnership (OEP) for the 2019 winter drilled oilseed crop, pledging that growers would only pay half of their seed costs...
High biomass clover for soil recovery
Forage crop specialist Germinal suggests that Fixation, its new high biomass annual clover, could offer dual benefits to farmers struggling with ground that has been waterlogged and left uncropped over winter. The company says that Fixation, which is included in...
Three crop rule derogation for 2020
Defra secretary George Eustice’s decision to relax the three-crop rule arable diversification requirement in England for 2020 has been welcomed by farm leaders, despite the minister’s earlier reluctance to take this action. Scotland and the Republic of Ireland had...
High yielding beet added to BBRO list
There are seven new sugarbeet varieties added to the British Beet Research Organisation (BBRO) recommended list for 2021 – five from KWS-UK and one each from Limagrain UK and SES VanderHave UK. The sugar beet RL is a joint venture between BBRO – itself jointly owned...
Arable manager for Limagrain UK
Plant breeder Limagrain has appointed William Charlton as its UK arable marketing manager based at the company’s headquarters in Rothwell, Lincolnshire. He joins Limagrain from Bayer, where he was campaign manager for the company’s combinable fungicide portfolio. His...
