<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Barclay Hamp]]></title><description><![CDATA[Barclay Hamp]]></description><link>https://www.barclayhamp.com/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 22:57:56 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.barclayhamp.com/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Crop Protection's Strange Recovery: Why the Numbers Are Up and the Org Charts Are Down]]></title><description><![CDATA[The view from the search seat Something odd is happening in crop protection, and from where we sit it's hard to miss. At the top of the market, the phone is ringing (well, it's 2026, so the emails are coming in). Big Ag's map is being redrawn faster than at any point since the 2017 mega-mergers. Corteva and Vylor have gone their separate ways, Syngenta is heading for a Hong Kong listing and BASF Agricultural Solutions for Frankfurt. New boards, new standalone businesses, new leadership teams....]]></description><link>https://www.barclayhamp.com/post/crop-protection-s-strange-recovery-why-the-numbers-are-up-and-the-org-charts-are-down</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6ad0d508083781fc8436e7fc</guid><pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 13:31:36 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Beatriz Oliveira</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Succession Gap: How Agricultural Inputs is Quietly Losing a Generation of Talent]]></title><description><![CDATA[For decades, Big Ag has functioned as the training ground for the entire agricultural inputs sector. The senior leadership teams at today's most exciting start-ups and scale-ups, across synthetic and biological crop protection, seeds and traits, and AgTech, are disproportionately staffed by people who cut their teeth at Tier 1 and Tier 2 multinationals. That pipeline has quietly underpinned the sector's growth for a generation. Right now, it's breaking down, and the industry hasn't fully...]]></description><link>https://www.barclayhamp.com/post/the-succession-gap-how-agricultural-inputs-is-quietly-losing-a-generation-of-talent</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6aaaa8cd72df05405688d8c9</guid><pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2026 14:34:11 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/3ca83f_de8b78764913404dbdbdb60e5d6f5ce2~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Beatriz Oliveira</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>