Seeds
Dalton Seeds’ marathon charity walk
Four colleagues from Dalton Seeds, based at Eye near Peterborough, recently completed a 26.2 mile walk along the North Norfolk coastline to raise funds for the Lincolnshire Rural Support Network (LRSN). The team comprised Daltons’...
Frontier seed cleaning moves west
Frontier Agriculture is to strengthen its farm-saved seed processing service in the west of England and Wales by dedicating one of its mobile seed cleaning and treatment units to the region. Growers in the area were previously...
Secobra establishes its place in the UK malting barley market
French multinational plant breeder SECOBRA Research kept its UK operation under the radar as it established its breeding programme in the UK. But with UK-bred barley varieties now on the Recommended Lists, it is...
SECOBRA secures full distilling and malting approval for Belter
The Maltsters Association of Great Britain (MAGB)’s Malting Barley Committee (MBC) has held its spring 2026 meeting to review the commercial position of existing approved varieties on its Approved List and evaluate new ones. The...
Vylor unveiled as new brand for Corteva Seeds
Corteva has announced further details on the proposed split of its crop protection and plant breeding interest it first revealed last October – seven years after the company was formed through the merger of Dow and DuPont. The...
Limagrain opens new on-farm variety demonstration network
Limagrain Field Seeds has launched a new UK farmer-led Demonstration Farm network to show its variety trials in a more commercial, on-farm setting. It is also working to raise the profile of the wider Limagrain Group in the domestic...