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Frontier Agriculture
Frontier Agriculture Ltd is the UK's largest crop production and grain marketing business, jointly owned by Associated British Foods and Cargill plc.
Frontier has a market share of 20% of the grain market, trades around 5,000,000 tonnes (5,500,000 tons) of grain per year, and has an annual turnover in excess of £1.5 billion. The Frontier seed business supplies 65,000 tonnes (72,000 tons) of seed to UK farmers. Frontier has 46 sites across the UK and employs more than 1,100 colleagues. They manage 160 agronomists, 1,900,000 acres (750,000 ha) of land, and are supported by a national trials programme comprising 12,000 replicated plots. Frontier is the largest UK distributor of fertiliser.
Frontier has several divisions providing additional specialist advice to growers. These include SOYL precision crop production and Kings, who are experts on game cover, conservation crops, green cover and forage crops. Nomix is one of the UK's suppliers of weed control products and technical support services for amenity and industrial weed control.
Frontier's main offices are in Perth, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Cranswick, Witham St Hughs, Diss, Sandy, Hermitage and Ross-on-Wye.
Allied Grain (owned by Associated British Foods) and Banks Cargill Agriculture merged in April 2005 under the direction of David Irwin (MD Allied Grain) to form Frontier Agriculture. Allied Grain was based in Norfolk. Banks Cargill Agriculture was formed in February 2001 between Cargill and Sidney C Banks, a UK grain trader based in Sandy.
Following Cargill's merger with Banks Agriculture, Mark Aitchison was appointed MD of the newly formed business.
In February 2012, Frontier announced that it had acquired TAP (The Agronomy Partnership), a specialist agronomy business based in Kent, consisting of a team of four crop Production specialists across Kent, Surrey and Sussex.
Frontier and a mobile seed cleaning business, formed a joint venture operation in 2013, to process and market seed in the East Midlands. Under the arrangement, GFP operates as a separate independent entity with Frontier taking a significant stake in the business. GFP is a seed specialist located in Lincolnshire. The business was formed in 2010 with the merger of Phillips Seeds Ltd and Gibson & Faulding Ltd.
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Frontier Agriculture
Frontier Agriculture Ltd is the UK's largest crop production and grain marketing business, jointly owned by Associated British Foods and Cargill plc.
Frontier has a market share of 20% of the grain market, trades around 5,000,000 tonnes (5,500,000 tons) of grain per year, and has an annual turnover in excess of £1.5 billion. The Frontier seed business supplies 65,000 tonnes (72,000 tons) of seed to UK farmers. Frontier has 46 sites across the UK and employs more than 1,100 colleagues. They manage 160 agronomists, 1,900,000 acres (750,000 ha) of land, and are supported by a national trials programme comprising 12,000 replicated plots. Frontier is the largest UK distributor of fertiliser.
Frontier has several divisions providing additional specialist advice to growers. These include SOYL precision crop production and Kings, who are experts on game cover, conservation crops, green cover and forage crops. Nomix is one of the UK's suppliers of weed control products and technical support services for amenity and industrial weed control.
Frontier's main offices are in Perth, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Cranswick, Witham St Hughs, Diss, Sandy, Hermitage and Ross-on-Wye.
Allied Grain (owned by Associated British Foods) and Banks Cargill Agriculture merged in April 2005 under the direction of David Irwin (MD Allied Grain) to form Frontier Agriculture. Allied Grain was based in Norfolk. Banks Cargill Agriculture was formed in February 2001 between Cargill and Sidney C Banks, a UK grain trader based in Sandy.
Following Cargill's merger with Banks Agriculture, Mark Aitchison was appointed MD of the newly formed business.
In February 2012, Frontier announced that it had acquired TAP (The Agronomy Partnership), a specialist agronomy business based in Kent, consisting of a team of four crop Production specialists across Kent, Surrey and Sussex.
Frontier and a mobile seed cleaning business, formed a joint venture operation in 2013, to process and market seed in the East Midlands. Under the arrangement, GFP operates as a separate independent entity with Frontier taking a significant stake in the business. GFP is a seed specialist located in Lincolnshire. The business was formed in 2010 with the merger of Phillips Seeds Ltd and Gibson & Faulding Ltd.