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BASF expands its BioSolutions offering by incorporating seaweed biostimulants from Acadian Plant Health™, a renowned marine plant harvesting, cultivation, and extraction company based in Dartmouth, Canada.
Trade News | October 15, 2024

BASF partners with Acadian Plant Healthto introduce climate-resilient solution

BASF expands its BioSolutions offering by incorporating seaweed biostimulants from Acadian Plant Health, a renowned marine plant harvesting, cultivation, and extraction company based in Dartmouth, Canada. “Now more than ever, farmers must pursue productivity and sustainability. We connect the best products, technologies, and services, to positively transform agriculture, impact food systems and, ultimately, society. By pooling our expertise and resources, we can make a meaningful change,” said Marko Grozdanovic, Senior Vice President Global Marketing at BASF Agricultural Solutions.
The production site in Rudong, China has reduced its emissions to zero, making it is the first site of BASF’s Agricultural Solutions segment to be CO2 emission-free.
October 9, 2024

Rudong becomes BASF Agricultural Solutions’ first CO2-emission-free production site

The BASF production site in Rudong, China has reduced CO2 emissions to zero1 by modifying its existing site heating system from steam to electricity generated from renewable energy. As a result, the facility in the Chinese province of Jiangsu is the first site of BASF’s Agricultural Solutions segment to be CO2 emission-free.
The first results of BASF’s multi-year Global Carbon Field Trials revealed that there is no one-size-fits-all solution to mitigate agriculture’s contribution to climate change. Instead, reducing emissions requires a tailored combination of interventions, products, and technologies. The picture shows a BASF trial field for rice Piedmont, Italy.

Photo: BASF SE
Trade News | September 12, 2024

BASF demonstrates pathways to lower emissions in agriculture, shared in first results from Global Carbon Field Trials

In a recently published report, BASF has shared the first results from its multi-year Global Carbon Field Trials. The results demonstrate that a reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in agriculture of up to 30 percent is possible compared to standard farming approaches – a target to which the company committed in 2020 to help farmers reduce their GHG emissions per ton of crop produced. The emissions reduction requires tailored climate smart approaches and varies by specific crop and region.
BASF Agricultural Solutions plans to change production network of glufosinate-ammonium (GA). As part of this, the company plans to cease production of the active ingredient at the Knapsack (left) and Frankfurt (right) sites by the end of 2024. The GA formulation in Frankfurt will end in 2025.  Photo: BASF SE
Trade News | July 10, 2024

BASF Agricultural Solutions plans to change production network of glufosinate-ammonium

BASF plans to cease production of the active ingredient glufosinate-ammonium (GA) at the Knapsack and Frankfurt sites in Germany by the end of 2024 due to economic reasons. The GA formulation in Frankfurt will end in 2025. Subsequently, both production facilities will be shut down. Glufosinate-ammonium remains a key component of BASF’s global herbicide portfolio.
Nils Mohmeyer, Director Mobile Spectroscopy, trinamiX (L) and Hans Martin, Managing Director Eurofins Agro Testing are looking forward to the collaboration.  Photo: Studio Pothoff BV
Trade News | June 26, 2024

Eurofins Agro Testing and trinamiX collaborate to optimize feed efficiency

LUDWIGSHAFEN, Germany, Wageningen, Netherlands, June 26, 2024 – Eurofins Agro Testing Wageningen, a renowned laboratory specializing in forage, feed, soil, water, manure and compost analysis has announced an international collaboration with trinamiX to optimize forage analyses without the need to send samples to a laboratory.