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Yara acquires organic fertiliser business
Fertiliser manufacturer Yara’s Finland operation has acquired Ecolan, the Finnish producer of recycled fertilisers, in a move to increase its ability to supply organic plant nutrition products more widely in Europe. Ecolan uses co-products and wastes from industrial...
ADM achieves net carbon neutral across US flour mills
US multinational Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) says it has achieved net zero emissions across its network of US flour mills, which will help its customers meet the growing consumer demand for carbon neutral flour and foodstuffs. The company says this is an industry...
Agricarbon investment for First Milk
Milk processor First Milk has acquired a 5% stake in soil carbon measurement company Agricarbon. Based in Dundee, Agricarbon is a start-up company aiming to accelerate a transition to more proactive soil stewardship through unlocking the value of soil carbon...
Cope Seeds to market miscanthus
Independent merchant Cope Seeds and Grain is partnering with miscanthus specialist Terravesta to market the rhizome hybrid Terravesta Athena. The company says this will help support the growing need to decarbonise the UK economy with bio-based solutions and fits into...
Rebrand and new website for the BSPB
The British Society of Plant Breeders (BSPB) has launched a new corporate identity and website which it says will better help to promote the importance of plant breeding to UK agriculture. BSPB chief executive Samantha Brooke says the rebrand is a response to a survey...
Comment: Short term measures needed to solve food chain staffing crisis
The cereals and oilseeds harvest is a stressful enough time for farmers, especially with the unsettled weather we ‘enjoyed’ this August. So, they could have done without the added pressure from a shortage of HGV drivers to move harvested crops or even to deliver fuel...
Stronger trading lifts Benchmark revenues
UK aquaculture supply business Benchmark Holdings has reported growth across all three divisions – feed, genetics and health – in the first nine months of 2021, with the group reducing its losses after last year’s restructure of operations. The group made an operating...