Lemaire Deffontaines

At the end of 2024, LEMAIRE DEFFONTAINES took over LIDEA's soft wheat breeding program.

 

This takeover includes the acquisition of the genetic pool, the lines nearing the end of breeding, and the 2024 lines which are in registration process. The transfer of the breeding team's employment contracts (six engineers and technicians), and the purchase of the warehouse in RECLAINVILLE (28, France) which will host offices, various laboratories, seed sorting and preparation facilities, a processing room, and a maintenance workshop for experimental equipment.

  

LEMAIRE DEFFONTAINES is also committed to LIDEA by proposing futur new lines for registration in the coming years.

 

Through this acquisition, LEMAIRE DEFFONTAINES intends to increase its breeding efforts, develop its straw cereals research programs, optimize the operations of its teams based in AUCHY-LEZ-ORCHIES (59) and RECLAINVILLE (28), and innovate in the creation of varieties adapted to sustainable and resilient production methods for France and Europe.