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CF Fertilisers is to invest £40m in British fertiliser production following rising demand for its ammonium nitrate (AN) based products and two years of record outputs at its manufacturing sites

Omex Agriculture’s brand new 16,000t liquid nitrogen and sulphur storage and distribution facility at Port of Dundee is now fully operational with its first load having left the site recently

The family-owned German seed company, Strube GmbH & Co KG, known in the UK for its popular sugar beet varieties, such as Haydn and Pasteur, has been acquired by the

The Agricultural Industries Confederation has launched on on-line assessment tool – ‘Developing Standards in On-Farm Grain Trading’ which will enable those involved in trading grain ex-farm to demonstrate their standards

Potato stock levels reached a record 2.4 million tonnes in January – up 25 per cent on last year, according to the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board. The latest data

BASF is in talks to acquire Bayer’s entire vegetable seeds business, operating under the global trademark Nunhems, according to the company. Bayer intends to divest this business in the context

Rank Hovis Milling Ltd, one of the UK’s largest flour milling businesses, is to expand its interest in the Group 2 variety KWS Siskin after large-scale milling trials showed that

Cefetra Ltd, a company with a trading volume of over 4 million tonnes of grain and products per year, has confirmed the acquisition of Premium Crops, a provider of premium and

A new monthly series of UK fertiliser prices from the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) will help increase transparency in the market. The monthly price information will cover the

AHDB has announced that GB potato stock levels for the end of November are estimated at 3.6m tonnes, the highest level for this point in the season since 2011/12. Amber

Farmers should resist the temptation to pursue what seem like ‘quick-win’ diversifications without thoroughly researching them, says rural surveyor and founder of The Business Barn, Hannah Moule. “There is a

The Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) is committing £5m to fund Britain’s next generation of agricultural experts in an effort to overhaul the industry’s “fragmented” innovation and skills pipeline.