20% free OSR seed offer to combat CSFB
Plant breeder DSV and Openfield, the co-operative arable marketing business with a major seed processing and distribution operation, have launched a new initiative to encourage growers to stick with oilseed rape as a break crop despite establishment problems. The two...
Muntons champions food industry sustainability
Stowmarket, Suffolk-based maltster Muntons claims to be the first in its sector to commit to the Food Waste Reduction Roadmap, which is co-ordinated in the UK by WRAP, a not-for-profit organisation, and the food chain research and training charity IGD. Muntons says it...
NFU calls for government to underwrite future OSR crops
The NFU is seeking urgent discussions with Defra about the future of oilseed rape (OSR) in Britain. It says the ban on neonicotinoids has meant growers can no longer control cabbage stem flea beetle populations, which are devastating the OSR crop across the country....
Buyers and sellers far apart in distorted oilseeds market
With food markets distorted by the covid-19 closure of the hotel, restaurant and catering sector, and the biofuel market hit a sharp fall in crude oil prices, the oilseeds market is highly illiquid, as buyers and sellers hold back. There are signs that mineral oil...
Record year for CropEnergies…but before Covid-19 bites
CropEnergies, Europe’s largest bioethanol producer which operates the Ensus plant on Teesside, has posted record profit and revenue figures from its latest full year’s trading. But the current picture is clouded by the rapid fall in crude oil values as demand for road...
BASF to reprise InVigor oilseed establishment risk scheme
Plant breeder BASF is to repeat the risk sharing scheme for growers of its InVigor hybrid winter oilseed rape (WOSR) varieties, following its successful launch in autumn 2019. The InVigor Establishment Risk Share Programme, which covers all InVigor WOSR varieties...