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Sugarbeet Planters

Part 1: How we develop new sugar beet seed treatments

In this two part feature, our lead scientist Jordan Long takes us through the development stages of new sugar beet seed treatments. Germains Seed Technology develops new seed treatments that are scientifically formulated that aim to optimise emergence, provide early growth under a wide range of conditions. All new seed treatments are backed by field […]

Xbeet® enrich 200 more yield in your field

Over the years Germains has developed unique processes to help manage yield fluctuations caused by pests and diseases, helping growers achieve consistent returns from their sugar beet crops. The company’s trusted Xbeet® seed treatments have now raised the bar in terms of evolving the science in crop emergence, early crop development and plant health with […]

Kerry Buttriss

Introducing Key Account Manager, Kerry Buttriss

Germains Seed Technology is pleased to announce its newest addition to the EU commercial team, Key Account Manager Kerry Buttriss. Reporting directly to European Commercial Manager Richard Nicholls, Kerry will be based at the Kings Lynn, Hansa Road, office. More About Kerry Buttriss For the past 12 years Kerry has worked at The East of England Agricultural Society, which is […]

50 years

50 years in Aalten

50 years celebration week 2019 is a special year for Germains, as we are celebrating 50 years of our facility in Aalten, the Netherlands. Click here to discover more about Germains’ heitage. Almost 100 years after Germains was founded by Eugene Germains in Los Angeles, California, the Dutch site opened in 1969 to help with […]

Celebrating 50 years in Aalten, the Netherlands

2019 is a special year for Germains as we are celebrating 50 years of our facility in Aalten, the Netherlands. Almost 100 years after Germains was founded by Eugene Germains in Los Angeles, California, the Dutch site opened in 1969 to help with the increasing demand of Germains products across Europe. Still today, this site […]

Germains’ European Commercial Manager Horticulture

Germains are pleased to announce that Bart van der Linden will take on responsibility for the Germains European Commercial Manager role. Bart brings with him more than 20 years of sales and business development experience working in a variety of roles across a number of agricultural sectors. He has most recently been working with a […]

Technical Update

Germains UK Sugar Beet Seed Technical Update

2018-19 Season Technical Update Germains always ensures that the best quality of sugar beet seed is delivered to UK growers and we perform several quality tests to guarantee that the seed is of the highest standard. As a natural product, the shape of incoming raw seed will show variation in both its size and shape. […]

Fruit Logistica

Fruit Logistica 2019

Fruit Logistica 2019 Between 6th to 8th February 2019, Germains’ Horticultural Key Account Managers Hans Renia and Christophe Clement attended Fruit Logistica in Berlin. With more than 85,000 visitors Fruit Logistica is the world’s leading exhibition for live fresh produce marketing, what you see in Berlin, is the future of the fresh produce trade. Fruit […]

Germains Grand Opening

Germains Seed Technology Celebrates Grand Opening of New Gilroy Facilities

Germains Seed Technology held a Grand Opening to celebrate the completion of their new organic automated processing facility and Research and Development Lab in Gilroy. Germains invested over $7 million in the construction of a new 37,500 sq ft certified organic facility. In addition to the new processing operations, Germains also purchased and renovated the […]

Drilling

Germains’ 2018 Grower Engagement Trial Results

Germains continue to back British farming in the UK by involving growers in our trials programme. As Germains further invests in the research and development of new products to delivery higher yield to the UK industry we ask growers to test this products in real life field conditions. The programme allows us to obtain valuable […]