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In November 2018, we teamed up with industry giant BASF to set some of our early career researchers an innovation challenge. Working in small teams, we asked them to come up with solutions to three of the biggest problems facing the future of farming globally.
And then – because we didn’t want to make it easy for them - in February, we packed the teams off to Germany to the worldwide HQ of BASF’s agricultural arm, to pitch their ideas to some of the company’s top brass…
You can see how they got on below and find out what BASF really thought about their ideas – along with tips from both our experts and the teams themselves on how to get your ideas off the page and into production.