yellow belly
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- south west lincolnshire
Frontier sells a lot of fertiliser seed and chemicals
Without prying, who does trade with openfield? I never hear of them on the farms I deal with, other than a bit of seed biz.
Similar area to Nick and everything goes to them. Good relationship with buyer, good communication from transport office and individual drivers. We are within reach of local store so can tractor and trailer in at will over harvest when we need. They were always £1/ton less than Wellgrain...... Bit of a cloud recently thanks to a man with a few diggers trying to scupper grand plans for a huge new store. The longer it drags on the more you start to wonder if it will ever happen.
Is a new store being planned in Norfolk then?Similar area to Nick and everything goes to them. Good relationship with buyer, good communication from transport office and individual drivers. We are within reach of local store so can tractor and trailer in at will over harvest when we need. They were always £1/ton less than Wellgrain...... Bit of a cloud recently thanks to a man with a few diggers trying to scupper grand plans for a huge new store. The longer it drags on the more you start to wonder if it will ever happen.
But they make a margin on every ton they sell......SO let's say £2 per tonne or £58 per truck load. A load of rapeseed is worth close to £10k and a merchant gets £58 margin.
For the £58 margin they take on the following:
No wonder the industry is in tatters!!
- Pay a farm trader to call farmers and buy the grain
- Manage the currency risk
- Manage the flat price risk
- Sell the grain
- Organise the transport
- Sort out the assurance and sustainability paperwork
- Sort out all the paperwork
- Oh and then if a farmer refuses to load and the merchant has to haul from distance or be defaulted.....
But they make a margin on every ton they sell......
And they don't pay for anything they don't fancy....
Too many admin on £ 50k
Too many traders on £100k +
This don't work with produce selling at 16th Century prices.....
Do they? What if they have a sale on and can't get it covered, they then get squeezed and can make a loss......
I think its being plannedIs a new store being planned in Norfolk then?
Do they? What if they have a sale on and can't get it covered, they then get squeezed and can make a loss......
It has come up against a very rich neighbour who doesn’t agree with it so has caused a lot of agro with planning. I’m unsure as to how far they’ve got although they did knock half the old site down maybe 2 years ago in anticipation of starting the new one, which in hindsight was rather odd.Is a new store being planned in Norfolk then?
It has come up against a very rich neighbour who doesn’t agree with it so has caused a lot of agro with planning. I’m unsure as to how far they’ve got although they did knock half the old site down maybe 2 years ago in anticipation of starting the new one, which in hindsight was rather odd.
We all feed and they seem to have the deal into Burston sown up which allow us to tractor and trailer in over winter as some of our storage would leave lorry drivers pulling their hair out. Payment on the 14th of the month, and can advance if necessary. We don’t commit our tonnage to far in advance so could sell some elsewhere but seem to work well for us. No doubt it’s not worth the paper it’s written on but we do pay the premium for the protection should they go pop.@AlfM I went past yesterday. Only up the road. Still nothing going on. Just big piles of rubble. Couple of sheds left but not much. Matey up the road opposes most things (my brother an ardent NCFC fan, doesn't have much positive to say about him either)
We sell one lorry load a yr through them. Certainly not everything! Suspect same rep as @nick... ,he's pretty good. Does a very easy to follow weekly report (not that I always agree with the sentiment!)