Euroseeds

25/09/2026

📢🙋🏻‍♀️ Meet the finalists of the !

This week, we spotlight Lantmännen BioAgri, a company developing sustainable solutions that help farmers start with healthy, high-quality seeds.

🌱 Their finalist innovation, ThermoSeed®, is a chemical-free seed treatment technology that helps manage seed-borne diseases while maintaining seed performance.

✅ Designed for large-scale use, ThermoSeed® offers a practical solution for supporting seed health and sustainable crop production.

🌾 It demonstrates how innovation can help meet the evolving needs of agriculture while reducing reliance on conventional chemical treatments.



Photo: ThermoSeed installation at an Italian customer Societa Italiana Sementi and their facility outside Bologna.

25/09/2026

Everyone likes to taste different types of fruits & vegetables. But how many people know about the origin of this diversity?

See how develops plant varieties that will meet consumer's needs 🔎👇👇

23/09/2026

Did you know?
More than 90% of organic seed in Europe comes from companies that also breed for conventional farming.

🔬 Thanks to shared breeding programmes and genetics, both systems benefit—with innovations delivered faster and more efficiently.

🧬 Whether organic or conventional, sustainability is a shared goal.
🔄 The Common Catalogue ensures freedom of choice for farmers.
📈 And if there is demand for specific breeding methods, seed companies are ready to deliver.

On , we celebrate all pathways to sustainable farming and the seeds that make them grow. 🌾

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The award ceremony will be organised on EU Organic Day on 23 September 2026. For this 5th edition of the EU organic awards, any actor or institution along the organic value chain with a noteworthy project were encouraged to apply.

22/09/2026

📢🙋🏻‍♂️ Meet the finalists of the !

This week, we spotlight SaliCrop, an agtech company developing innovative solutions to help agriculture adapt to climate change.

🌱 Their seed enhancement technology is designed to help crops better withstand challenges such as drought, heat and soil salinity, supporting more stable crop performance when conditions become difficult.

✅ Compatible with existing crop varieties and farming practices, the technology offers a practical approach to building climate resilience directly into seeds before planting.

🌾 An innovative solution helping farmers prepare for a future of increasingly unpredictable growing conditions.

21/09/2026

is a way of speeding up the traditional methods of plant breeding to ensure that we can improve the environmental and nutritional outcomes of feeding our ever-expanding human population.🌏

18/09/2026

Coffee is the most commonly consumed beverage in the world after water and tea.
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Unfortunately, the coffee plant is incredibly vulnerable to pests & diseases.

helps develop stronger coffee varieties thus reducing the need for fungicides

17/09/2026

Could you imagine doing groceries if plant breeders, & the entire chain had stopped during the past few months?
innovation is necessary to ensure a high-quality and plentiful supply of fresh fruits and vegetables.

16/09/2026

🌱✨ Spotlight on Jury Members 🌱✨

🔹 Katrien Swerts, Executive Director at Rabobank

"Being part of the InnovAction Stage jury is inspiring because it showcases the latest innovations driving the seed sector forward. The seed sector is where science, entrepreneurship, and sustainability come together, enabling the development of crops that are more resilient, productive, and adapted to a changing climate. It is exciting to see how bold ideas can grow into solutions that make a real difference for agriculture and society."

At , Katrien will help select the seed technology that stands out as this year’s InnovAction winner. 🚀🌍

15/09/2026

Over the past 100 years, has delivered high-yielding crops that have sustained human population growth. Nowadays, the current pace of yield increase is insufficient to meet future . 📈

How can we breed better varieties fast enough? 🤔