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| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arable agriculture |
| Founded | April 2005 |
| Headquarters | Witham St Hughs, Lincoln LN6 9TN |
Area served | UK |
Key people | Mark Aitchison Managing Director |
| Products | Grain marketing & crop production |
| Revenue | c. £1.5 billion |
Number of employees | c.1100 |
| Parent | ABF Holdings Ltd, Cargill plc |
| Website | 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.[1] They manage 160 agronomists, 1,900,000 acres (750,000 ha) of land, and are supported by a national trials programme [2] 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.
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