Dear business partners,

Just as we wished at the beginning of 2021 that the "covid peripeties" would be a thing of the past, unfortunately it did not happen. Throughout the year, our lives have been affected by various restrictions, and their end is not in sight even at the beginning of the new year. With the end of the year, rising inflation affecting the prices of all products on the market was also added. With the rising prices of raw materials and their general shortage, our business partners are also struggling. Fertilizer producers are complaining about the shortage of raw materials for the production of nitrogen fertilizers, the rising prices of phosphorus and potassium, which have an impact on the rising prices of the resulting products and their shortage on the market. Seed producers are dependent on the production prices of field crops and their growth in the last few years. Another factor is compounded by rising energy and fuel prices. The result of all this is the rising price of all products and their availability on the market. In today's globalized society, everything is related to everything.

On behalf of our company, we are therefore glad that we can offer you all the essential products of our partners in the quantity and quality to which you are accustomed even in these difficult times. At the same time, in such a turbulent time of rising prices, we managed to negotiate affordable price conditions for existing products for you. Products that have seen a sharp increase in price have been replaced with new ones, but always in such a way as not to reduce the quality at a reasonable price.

At the beginning of 2022, there were several changes in the product portfolio. After a broad discussion with colleagues from Barenbrug, grass seeds are divided into two groups, one consisting of so-called "innovative products" and the other of standard products that you have known for many years. The first group consists of grass mixtures based on an innovative breeding programme and contain the best that Barenbrug has to offer. These include mixtures such as SOS and Speedy Green, mixtures containing RPR, Yelow Jacket Water Manager and Resilient Blue technologies, as well as Mower and Water Saver. And now also a mixture of Shadow & Sun. These mixtures will continue to be packed in world-famous yellow bags with their own pictogram. Other mixtures will be packed in colored bags labeled with the label of the mixture and the Company Barenbrug. Pireco products have also been revised with regard to national and European legislation. Therefore, some products still have to go through a new approval process after the modification of European legislation in mid-2022.

Pay attention to penetrating and moisturizing agents, where the application rates have been significantly modified!