The UK Agricultural Industries Confederation has announced that Sam Bell , UK Commercial Director at CF Industries and Nick Major , Corporate Affairs Director at ForFarmers have taken over as chairs for the AIC’s Fertiliser Executive Committee and Feed Executive Committee, respectively.
“There can be no life without soil, and no soil without life.” An insightful quote from Charles Kellogg, the renowned former chief of USDA’s soils bureau.
The commercial production of cannabis for medicinal purposes is expanding rapidly. This burgeoning market is opening up new opportunities for growers and fertilizer producers alike. Avishai Schneider , market development agronomist at Haifa Group, offers his advice for successful fertilization of this sensitive and difficult to grow crop.
The two agricultural products most strongly associated with the economies of Southeast Asia are the food staple rice and export commodity palm oil. We explore the link between the region’s agricultural productivity and its fertilizer consumption.
Nelson Silva was appointed to Nutrien’s board of directors in the second week of August. His appointment coincided with the retirement of David C Everitt from Nutrien’s board, where he has been a director since 2013.
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, CRU Events is convening the 2020 Africa Fertilizer Agribusiness Conference, 14-16 September, as a ground-breaking virtual event for the first time.
We talk to Nicolas White , Portfolio & Knowledge Director at Tessenderlo Kerley International, about the company’s new agronomic book on SOP – Sulfate of Potash: More than 100 years of experience. At almost 350 pages, the book is unique in its depth and breadth of coverage.
Belgium-headquartered Tessenderlo Kerley International, a business unit of Tessenderlo Group, has entered into a new partnership with Kemira of Finland. The two companies have signed a long-term off-take agreement for the marketing and distribution of premium SOP (sulphate of potash) fertilizers.
SensoTech has announced a high level management restructuring which represents a generational change in leadership. Robert Benecke and Hannes Benecke, sons of the founder Dr. Ingo Benecke have become the company’s new managing directors with immediate effect, replacing Dr. Ingo Benecke and SensoTech co-founder Mathias Bode, who have run the company for 30 years, developing and producing sonic velocity measuring instruments for liquid analysis which can be found in numerous industrial plants around the globe.
Although the Covid-19 pandemic has been the big story in every market this year, the disruption and dislocations that this has caused have masked some of the bigger trends in the urea market, such as the revival of Chinese exports and India’s push for self-sufficiency.