Regulatory

Producing industrial crops - not for food - has many advantages, both for the company, for the seed grower and for the customer. Food production is regulated strongly to protect the consumer, however, in case of industrial crops, crop protection and seed regulations are much less stringent. This increases the number of options for high yielding crops, because a lot more products are available to the farmer. Depending on industry segment, residues may be important as in food production or less so as in some other industries. For the pharma industry every step has to be validated, and they would buy organic if the quality is available and the price is not the biggest concern. So we have to work on meeting the different needs, industry by industry.