This Cereal-Free Mix from Kings Crops was drilled in the last week of July and is now doing a fantastic job of recycling nutrients, improving soil structure and pricing a valuable source of late food for insects. 🐝🌱🐜🐞🐝 Find out more about our cereal-free mixtures: https://lnkd.in/eZwgu38C
Frontier Agriculture
Farming
The UK's leading crop production and grain marketing business. Frontier is a Great Place to Work Certified™ business.
About us
Frontier Agriculture is the UK's leading crop production and grain marketing business, recognised for its close customer relationships with farmers and grain consumers and its successful management of the arable supply chain. Frontier was formed in 2005 as a joint venture between Associated British Foods and Cargill plc and now turns over around £1.5 billion per annum. Frontier has 46 sites across the UK and employs more than 1,000 colleagues. Frontier’s main offices are in Perth, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Cranswick, Witham St Hughs, Diss, Sandy, Andover and Ross-on-Wye. Operating across all aspects of arable crop production and grain marketing, Frontier supplies seed, crop protection products and fertiliser to farmers, as well as providing specialist agronomy advice through our team of 140 agronomists. Frontier's grain marketing business has well-established contracts with the UK's key grain consumers, giving our farmer customers unrivalled access to end markets. Frontier has a number of 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. Frontier's mission is to be the first choice partner for crop production and crop marketing for UK farmers, and the first choice employer in UK agriculture. Frontier is also a Certified™ great place to work.
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http://www.frontierag.co.uk
External link for Frontier Agriculture
- Industry
- Farming
- Company size
- 501-1,000 employees
- Headquarters
- Lincoln
- Type
- Privately Held
- Founded
- 2005
- Specialties
- Seed, Crop Protection, Agronomy, Grain marketing, Fertiliser, Transport & logistics, Potatoes, Contract services, Trials & demonstrations, Grain storage facilities, Import/export facilities, Precision crop production (SOYL), and crop production
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Witham St Hughs
Lincoln, LN6 9TN, GB
Employees at Frontier Agriculture
Updates
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Here's a great crop of a Kings Crops 'Forage Rye and Radish Mix' which was sown after peas in #Perth. It's being grazed by about 200 sheep before being used for a Ecological Focus Areas (EFA) green cover agreement from November to 1st January. More detail about this mix here: https://lnkd.in/ed2QxZDb
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ICYMI “There are many reasons to consider liquid fertiliser; it can deliver a host of benefits ranging from more precise applications, greater flexibility to reduced use of plastics and can support you to make the most of your labour, machinery and space.” Read more from liquid fertiliser manager, Jack Russell, in this #blog: https://loom.ly/c9eO0qE
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We've just published Frontrunner, our weekly market update from our trading experts covering wheat, barley, oats, oilseed rape, pulses and fertiliser. 📰 You can read the full report on our blog: https://loom.ly/9LqH-Hk 🔊 Frontrunner is also available as a podcast on Acast, Spotify, Apple Music and Google Podcasts, so you can listen while you're on the go: https://loom.ly/yI05Cd0 📧 Why not subscribe and be notified each time a report is published? https://loom.ly/KRx9TPU #GrainMarkets #CropProduction #BritishFarming #AdvancingAgriculture
Frontrunner - 24th October 2024
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Here's a Kings Crops 'Post-Harvest Grazing' Mix re-growing well in #Northamptonshire. The farm's sheep have been taken off to allow another flush of green to get through winter 🐑🌱 Bringing together the best of grazing and cover crops, this mix strikes the balance required to deliver for both livestock and soils. Find out more: https://lnkd.in/eAEbwdQQ
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Some growers may be unsure about the requirements they need to fulfil for their SFI soil management, nutrient and integrated pest management plans. MyCompliance technical lead and Frontier agronomist, Fiona Spires, explains the aims and criteria of each action and how the compliance team can support with assessments and planning in #AGRONOMY: https://loom.ly/RpQ98lQ
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Kings Crops technical advisor for the Midlands, Anna Ramsay, recently spent a day with sustainable crop production placement student, Sofia Rands and East Midlands agronomist, Katie Hughes. They looked at environmental and specialist crop plots at the #Haywold #3DThinking trial site, followed by some training on farm in North #Lincolnshire with a focus on winter bird food, legume mixes and winter cover crops. #SustainableFarming #RegenAg #WomeninAgriculture
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📢#JOB: Our team in Lincoln is looking for a Marketing Coordinator to support the implementation of marketing activity across our portfolio of products and services. Excellent attention to detail and organisational skills required. Apply ➡️ https://loom.ly/9n1cNH4 #MarketingCoordinator #LincolnJobs #LincolnshireJobs #MarketingJobs
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ICYMI "If ergot is present in grain, there are a few options to remedy the problem. Frontier has access to a huge storage network with a significant capacity for grain conditioning. We also have mobile seed and grain cleaning services." Read more about ways to manage ergot: https://loom.ly/7hD8n3c
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Frontier agronomist, Emma Pudney-Filtness, highlights some of the actions farmers can take to improve soil conditions post-harvest, including sampling to assess overall soil health, nutrients and organic matter levels. Discover more in issue 31 of #AGRONOMY: https://loom.ly/gbpZKIY
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