Ireland
October 4, 2016

Germinal Ireland have been shortlisted in two categories for this year’s National Agribusiness Awards. The winner will be announced at a ceremony on Thursday, November 17th at the Ballsbridge Hotel, Dublin.

Germinal have been shortlisted for Agribusiness of the year in the Crops category and for Agribusiness of the year in the Merchant category.

According to Germinal Ireland’s General Manager, Dermot Campion, “For too long grass and forage crops were seen as minor details in the overall picture of crop production. Grass has traditionally not been viewed as a crop, but is in fact the most efficient crop a farmer can grow from a productivity and efficiency perspective.
Germinal has been instrumental in changing this message and farmers are getting rewards from what they can produce from home grown forage. To be shortlisted in the crops category is testament to this message.”

Germinal Ireland started in 1983 and since then the business has evolved and grown through many stages of development and overseen extensive development and installation of seed storage and processing facilities.

Dermot highlighted, “this investment, coupled with our involvement in grass and clover breeding at the Welsh based Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences (IBERS) and the AFBI plant breeding station in Armagh, has given us the capacity to grow into the market leading company not only in terms of market share, but also service, knowledge, research and innovation.

“We are delighted to have been shortlisted in two categories and it is a reflection of the effort put in by all the team here in Germinal.”

Website: http://www.germinal.com

Published: October 4, 2016