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 Agriculture Ltd
TypePrivate
IndustryArable agriculture
FoundedApril 2005
HeadquartersWitham St Hughs, Lincoln LN6 9TN
Area served
UK
Key people
Mark Aitchison
Managing Director
ProductsGrain marketing & crop production
Revenuec. £1.5bn
Number of employees
c.1000
ParentABF Holdings Ltd, Cargill plc
WebsiteFrontier Agriculture

Frontier has a market share of 20% of the grain market, trades around 5 million tonnes of grain per annum and has an annual turnover in excess of £1.5 bn. The Frontier seed business supplies 65,000 tonnes of seed to UK farmers. Frontier employs 140 agronomists, managing 750,000 hectares of land, and supported by a national trials programme that consists of over 12,000 replicated plots. Frontier is the largest UK distributor of fertiliser.

Frontier belongs to the Trade Assurance Scheme for Combinable Crops, run by the Agricultural Industries Confederation.

History

Allied Grain(owned by [Associated British Foods]-ABF) 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 had been formed in February 2001 between Cargill and Sidney C Banks, a UK grain trader based in Sandy.

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