agriculture

In an interview with Börsen-Zeitung, Südzucker CFO Stephan Meeder discusses low sugar prices, the new cost saving programme at the company, and how the recent UK-US trade agreement might impact UK ethanol production by its Cropenergies unit.

Heavily indebted agricultural trading company Baywa is urgently discussing how to proceed with its creditor banks.

When the Agricultural Bank extends financing to farmers, the commercial banks transmit to it highly varied non-financial indicators about the ultimate borrowers. CEO Nikola Steinbock is currently exploring with banking associations and industry representatives how to standardize this dataset.