Farmers in developing countries often rely heavily on their yearly harvest to feed their families. A bad crop can have severe consequences for their livelihood. Despite the significant advantages crop insurances would offer in alleviating this risk, … Read More
European Seed’s parent company, Issues Ink, is looking to expand and we have an opportunity available for someone residing in Europe. POSITION SUMMARY: Our Account Manager is responsible for client engagement and development by evaluating our c… Read More
The British Crop Production Council, BCPC, will be joining NIAB in a move that will strengthen their delivery of independent information, products and opinion. Both organisations have the latest agricultural science at their core, to boost efficient,… Read More
Scientists at KeyGene in Wageningen, the Netherlands, together with their partners, work on sequencing, assembling, understanding and using genomes of a variety of economically important crops, including vegetables, field crops and ornamentals. With … Read More
Philippe Saux, Director General at Euralis Seeds talks with Marcel Bruins at the 2018 ESA Annual meeting in Madrid, Spain from October 7-9, 2018.… Read More
The European Commission will provide funding of €172,5 million from the EU agricultural budget to promote EU agri-food products in Europe and across the world. 79 campaigns, covering a wide range of products such as dairy products, olives and olive… Read More
Women in agriculture around the world, whether in developing or developed countries, say widespread gender discrimination persists and poses obstacles to their ability to help feed the world, according to a new study from Corteva AgriscienceTM, Agric… Read More
Even after the ruling by the European Court of Justice on new plant breeding methods, KWS will continue to invest in them. “The new means of targeted mutagenesis, which are often subsumed under the term CRISPR, mean breeders can offer farmers bette… Read More
The European seed sector acknowledges the ruling of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in case C-528/16 of 25. July 2018 by which the Court interpreted the provisions of the EU’s Directive 2001/18 in such a way that plants resulting from innovativ… Read More
As part of Bayer’s long-term goal to improve the lives of smallholder farmers and their families, the company donated EUR 700,000 to One Acre Fund, a non-profit social enterprise supplying smallholder farmers with the financing, tools and train… Read More
On the afternoon of Friday, 14 September, Rijk Zwaan officially opened its brand-new R&D facility on Eerste Kruisweg in Fijnaart. This extension gives the international vegetable breeding company the necessary space to further expand its research… Read More
For more than half a century, Dutch and European agricultural policy has focused on efficiently producing as much food as possible for a low price and with a reasonable income for the farmers. Using this policy that was developed by the legendary Sic… Read More
European policy making has had a great, but not always positive impact on European agriculture and the seed sector. We only need to recall the process of approving GMOs, new plant protection products, or the recent ban on neonics, just to name a few.… Read More
On Sept. 5, Bayer opened a state-of-the-art seed processing facility in Pochuiky, Zhytomyr region. The new facility is the largest of its kind in Ukraine, and one of the largest in Europe. Investment in the new plant amounts to 200 million U.S. dolla… Read More
