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OCTOBER 2015 SEEDWORLD.COM 73 Netherlands Business Support Office and in collaboration with the Gujarat State Agriculture authorities INCOTEC India has a major role in developing the seed valley concept in Gujarat India. The official inauguration of Gujarat Seed Valley took place Sept. 10during the Agri Asia exhibition in Gandhinagar Gujarat India. BASF Crop Protection expands its Littlehampton United Kingdom facil- ity. The site is BASFs only onefor the manufacture research and development sales and distribution of its entire range of nematode-based biological control products for the global market. The expansion doubles the plants fermenta- tion capacity to 190000 liters. Oregons Blue Mountain Seeds has pur- chased a seed cleaning facility that was damaged earlier this year in a fire from Barenbrug USA. Blue MountainSeeds plans to clean fine-leaf fescue seed and bluegrass seed at the plant after some reconstruction and use the facilitys warehouse for seed storage. After a 75-year absence in the U.S. market the Rob-See-Co corn brand will again be available for 2016. Currently in states west of the Mississippi Rob- See-Co will also expand its sales territory for the Innotech brand of seeds east of the Mississippi River. Tropical Melhoramento e Gentica Ltda. and Verdeca LLC a joint venture between Arcadia Biosciences Inc. and Bioceres S.A. will collaborate to develop a port- folio of new non-genetically modified soybean varieties with agronomic and product qualitytraits. The collaboration will use Verdecas proprietary soybean genetic diversity library and Arcadias high-throughput screening platform. Developing into alife sciences company Bayer CropScience will become the Crop Science Division as of Jan. 1 2016. The companys business will be man- aged by three divisions Pharmaceuticals Consumer Health and Crop Science. Applewood Seed Company celebrates 50 years as acommercial and whole- sale supplierof wildflower garden flower native grassand herb seed. The company carries high quality open-pollinated seeds and offers single species as well as seed mixtures. Through a new licensing agreement with Synthace Dow AgroSciences LLC works to speed the process at which it can deliver microbial solutions to the market. The agree- ment includes a multi-seat enterprise license giving Dow AgroSciences access to Synthaces Antha software tools. AgReliant Genetics beginsconstruction on a greenhouse at itsLebanon Ind. research station. This space will be used for corn researchand trait technology conversion. The greenhouse will provide more than 3400 square feet of space and will be the first of threeplanned greenhouse additions. The initial pro- ject is expected to becomplete in December 2015. In Syngentas 2015 half-year results the company announced an expanded product pipeline with sales potential of more than 3.6 billion. In 2015 our industry has experienced continuing softness in crop prices and low farm incomes says Mike Mack Syngenta CEO. Despite these challenges and our decision to reduce sales of glyphosate we achieved sales growth at con- stant exchange rates of 3 percent. Becks expandsinto Iowa Missouri Wisconsin Michigan Illinois and Ohio. This expansion adds roughly 12 million acres of corn and soybeans to Becks former marketing area. Barenbrug USA acquiresOregon Seed Enhancement a high- output seed coating facility located near Tangent Ore. BASF released second-quarter results showing Agricultural Solutions sales rose by 1 percent to 1.7billion euros. Positive currency effects and higher sales prices offset lower sales vol- umes. Nevertheless earnings before interest and taxes EBIT and before special items fell by 68million euros to 365million. Aside from the decrease in volumes this was also a result of increased fixed costs from the startup of new plants. Bayer CropScience will expand its European Wheat Breeding Center in Saxony-Anhalt Germany. The center comprises about 98 acres of farmland greenhouses laboratories offices and facilitiesfor seed preparation. In the coming years the wheat breeding area will expand to about 198 acres. Illumina Inc. increased revenue in the second quarter of 2015. Revenue was539 million a 21percentincrease compared to 448 million in the second quarter of 2014 and an increase of 25 percenton a constant currency basis. Keygene N.V. and Floragenex Inc. enterinto a license agree- ment around KeyGenes Sequence Based Genotyping SBG technology. The agreement enables Floragenex to extend its SBG service offerings to include ddRAD-Seq in noncommercial and academic research across all species. In 2015 our industry has experienced continuing softness in crop prices and low farm incomes. Mike Mack