Fengrain loses

Pooper Scooper

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Was reading the EDP yesterday and I stumbled upon this.

Is it usual for a farmer owned Co-op to deliver these kind of results?
 

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D14

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Was reading the EDP yesterday and I stumbled upon this.

Is it usual for a farmer owned Co-op to deliver these kind of results?

When you see things like that and know about the likes of wellgrain, viking grain and that potato outfit recently that went, it really does push us all towards selling little and often to a handful of buyers to hedge your bets and to protect your own business. There would be no way now we would join a co-op after all these stories.
 

franklin

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Tells you very little. Could have build a big store or something and had a massive writedown. Quite possible to have strong positive cashflow and be building a balance sheet, but run at a loss in accounting terms.
 
Not all cooperatives are the same.

As an example, Woldgrain is simply a storage and primary processing coop, with all marketing outsourced to our marketing partners.

Woldgrain never own the grain in store and are not involved in any trading.

Other coops trade on behalf of their members (and the wider industry) to generate turnover.
 

Fuzzy

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Arable Farmer
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Bedfordshire
When you see things like that and know about the likes of wellgrain, viking grain and that potato outfit recently that went, it really does push us all towards selling little and often to a handful of buyers to hedge your bets and to protect your own business. There would be no way now we would join a co-op after all these stories.
Wellgrain was not a Co-op, it was largely owned by one person.
 

Farma Parma

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Arable Farmer
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Northumberlandia
Bloody pleased the Local Grain Outfit we have been founding members of since it started in the early 80's is not owned by one single person & has a separate Grain Selling Co to the main Grain Storage/Drying/Handling Business.
Oh & to add i get a full copy of the operating accounts for both companies yearly & there financially sound..
 

Condi

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As an aside, Nidera UK have become COFCO international ltd, backed by COFCO corporation, with total assets of 70 billion dollars.

Also please be aware the UK subsidiary is entirely a separate legal entity and could comfortably go bust with or without COFCO ownership or asset base. ;)


As others have pointed out, an accounting loss doesn't necessarily mean that much if investment is being made or accountants have been juggling numbers. Wellgrain, for example, made a profit last year.
 

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