With only four weeks to go until our Takii Europe Brassica Open Days we look forward to welcoming growers to our Lincolnshire Demo Site, kindly hosted by the Nundy's at Windy Ridge Vegetables. We hope that our open days will operate in a more traditional format this year, however it remains a priority that all visitors and hosts alike are kept safe and well as the Covid-19 pandemic continues to prevail. Further information will follow in the coming weeks.

This year will give growers the opportunity to view proven commercial material, alongside pre-commercial varieties across the complete Takii brassica portfolio. The extensive cabbage portfolio with varieties tailored to the fresh, processing and storage markets will be highlighted in the field along with the latest advancements for the spring greens and savoy cabbage sectors.

With a focus on varieties that will give growers a true point of difference when meeting ever-changing consumer demand, our event is definitely one to fit into the schedule for what is always a valuable week in the grower calendar.

BASIS and NRoSO points will apply for all customers attending the event. For further information please call 02380 454676 or email sales@agilityag.com.
 

Takii and Agility have been working together for three years.  As part of this exciting journey we are now collaborating in both red and brown onions.  This work includes field trials for new pre-commercial varieties alongside the supply of the Takii commercial portfolio.  Our trials programme includes work with independent bodies such as NIAB and AHDB alongside research with key stakeholders, agronomists and growers.  As UK onion growers plan  for 2021, we are delighted to share results from the recent NIAB onion field trials in our first crop report for this season.  The Takii onion portfolio has been growing in market share across Europe in recent years.  These results certainly confirm some of the key attributes and where these high performing varieties will fit in your programme. 
 
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Due to COVID-19 restrictions and in order to ensure the safety of everyone at our Brassica Trials Site this year, all visitors are strictly by appointment only.  Please register your attendance on arrival  along with BASIS and NrOSO points by completing the form here.

Agility Agriculture has formalised an agreement for the distribution of Gautier Seeds in the UK and Ireland, focusing on professional growers of open field crops. This agreement takes immediate effect and significantly enhances the Agility Agriculture portfolio in several key open field crops.

Following last week’s British Growers Carrot and Onion Conference our focus has moved quickly towards variety selection for spring 2020 drilling.  We were delighted to see the results from the recent UK field trials where Seminis Numbito certainly stands out from the crowd.  This variety has performed consistently well across the board.  It is earlier to mature, delivers higher marketable yields and shows excellent storage capability.  Numbito is definitely worthy of selection in any brown onion variety portfolio for this coming season.  For more information call us on +44 (0)2380 454676 or email sales@agilityag.com

We are delighted to announce that Zak Watling has joined our team as Trainee Account Manager. Zak brings a wealth of experience across the agricultural sector having previously worked in agricultural logistics, field trials and as a market analyst for the UK cereal balance sheets. Zak studied Agriculture at Hartpury College and graduated from the University of Nottingham with a BSc in Agriculture with Crop Science. With a keen interest in current and future agricultural innovations we are very pleased that Zak will strengthen our customer focus and technical expertise across all crops.

The Brassica Open Days and Annual Variety Trials in Lincolnshire are an established feature of the year for growers.  Whilst the exclusive distribution agreement between Takii Seeds and Agility Agriculture is still relatively new, it is an exciting occasion as both companies combine their strengths and showcase some exciting innovations together for the first time.

We are delighted to announce that Tom Mutter has joined us as Account Manager for the north of England and Scotland.  Tom brings a wealth of account management and business development experience,  having previously worked in the fresh produce industry across Europe for a major packaging supplier.
 

We are delighted to share the news that Agility Agriculture has formalised an agreement with Takii Europe for the distribution of seed in the UK and Republic of Ireland.  This agreement is with immediate effect and will allow us to offer our customers even more product and variety choice than before.
 

This season has thrown some of the most extreme weather conditions at the crops and it was pleasing to see how well the Seminis varieties had performed in such challenging conditions. The impact of an extremely hot summer and the cold early spring was not apparent in the commercial varieties or indeed the future pipeline material.
 

Agility Agriculture look forward to seeing customers old and new at this year’s British Carrot Growers’ Association (BCGA) field trials day, where we will be exhibiting the latest carrot varieties in the Seminis portfolio.

A press release was made on 1^st May 2017 by the International Bremia Evaluation Board for the EU (IBEB-EU) stating that it “….has evaluated all Bremia races found in 2016 and earlier. Once again, many outbreaks of Bremia were caused by Bremia races with only local importance. However, one race spread in most European countries and IBEB-EU decided to denominate this isolate as the new race BI: 33EU. The Board emphasizes the importance of chemical control and hygiene measures in addition to the use of resistant varieties to prevent the development of new races.”

We were delighted to attend the British Carrots Field Trials day on Thursday 6^th October, hosted by Hobson Farming at Scampston Estate. 
 

Agility Agriculture has been appointed as exclusive distributor for more than half of Monsanto’s Seminis branded vegetable seed products in the UK & Ireland.