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 5million mt 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 and Banks Cargill Agriculture merged in April 2005 under the direction of David Irwin 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.

Structure

Frontier's head office is in the village of Witham St Hughs, south west of Lincoln, off the A46.
It has more than 1,000 employees in 46 regional offices across the UK.

Regional offices

It has main offices at:
Divisions of Frontier include:
- Kings provides an extensive range of products and expert advice on game cover and specialist conservation crops throughout the UK and Europe.
- SOYL provides expert services and support to growers wishing to use precision farming techniques to improve the economic, agronomic and environmental performance of their farm business. SOYL helps farmers to develop a precision farming system that ensures sustainable production for the future.
- Nomix is a leading supplier of herbicide products and technical support services for amenity, rail and industrial weed control in the UK.