Agronomy services company Farmacy, part of the Hutchinsons Group, is partnering KP Snacks, the UK’s second-largest manufacturer of bagged snacks, to ensure the sustainability of its potato supplies. KP Snacks has committed to...
Former Velcourt technical director Keith Norman has launched a new farmer-based strategic agronomy scheme, with the support of Farmacy, a Hutchinsons business. The Claritas initiative aims to set up a number of small regional groups...
A team of Harper Adams University students has won Hutchinsons’ 2019 Cereals Challenge, with runner-up Newcastle University also winning the company’s separate Environmental Challenge. The Royal Agricultural University was third. Five colleges – Harper, Newcastle,...
The Origin group of prominent farm animal veterinary businesses has been acquired by the Vet Partners network of farm and pet animal veterinary companies. The addition of Origin’s vet brands, together with a laboratory and consulting business, will create by far the...
Farmacy, the national independent agronomy business within the Hutchinson Group of companies, has purchased Allium & Brassica (AB) Agronomy and the Allium & Brassica Centre. Farmacy says this latest acquisition expands the specialist agronomy side of its...
Sally Morris, a Farmacy agronomist within the Hutchinsons group, is the winner of the Barry Orme Shield as the top performing student in the BASIS Certificate of Crop Protection in 2016. Ms Morris grew up on a family farm near Melton Mowbray and gained her degree in...