French plant breeding company Secobra Research has appointed Tom Barker as its first UK product manager, a new role for the company. Mr Barker, with 17 years trade experience, joins from Limagrain UK where he was cereals and pulses...
BASF’s urea fertiliser inhibitor, Limus, was first introduced to the UK in 2018. The product contains both NBPT and NPPT urease enzyme inhibitors, improving nitrogen use efficiency by minimising nitrogen losses from volatilisation,...
Farmer-owned United Oilseeds has started the UK’s first sunflower marketing pool following increasing interest in growing the crop domestically. The company notes that an average 60,000 tonnes of sunflower seed is imported into the...
Covantis, the project to modernise and improve global agricultural trading through the support of six of the world’s largest farm commodity procurement and processing businesses, is now legally established. The project was first launched in November 2018 by ADM,...
A former ADM executive has been appointed to lead the development phase of the global agricultural trading facilitation project that is supported by six of the world’s largest farm commodity trading and processing businesses. The project, launched in November 2018 by...
Glencore Agriculture has joined the initiative to digitalise global grain trading that was launched last year. Last November, four major global grain trading businesses - ADM, Bunge, Cargill and Louis Dreyfus - announced a joint collaborative project to explore how...