Through TFF’s history members have suggested that we should somehow leverage the combined buying power of the membership to get us all better prices for our inputs.
We have been approached by several established buying groups who saw opportunity to expand their membership but none ever managed to convince us that they could truly make a difference and the secrecy and membership fees that comes wIth traditional buying groups conflicts with our principles of free farmer access and freedom to share information.
We like the way that none Ag sites such as groupon have been able to aggregate demand to get users better deals and were also keen to use technology rather than offices full of expensive staff to build a buying group with a difference, one with much lower costs meaning we can focus on getting the best possible prices for users.
Farmdeals is the result, we have been developing the idea and the app technology over the last 12 months and are now ready to launch in beta form to a small group of farmers and suppliers.
Key differences over other buying groups include:
We are now looking for 50 farmers ahead of a early December launch of the app. Fuel will be the first product available so those testers should idealy have intention to buy fuel or heating oils through December / January.
If interested go to https://www.farmdeals.ag/ where more is explained and beta testers can apply to get involved.
Fill out the registration form and we will be in contact, in early December you will be invited to download the simple app.
If all goes well we will open up to all in the spring and add other products like ag chems, fertilisers and animal feeds.
If just 5% of TFF members use Farm Deals we can very quickly become the UK’s biggest buying group and certainly the UK‘s lowest cost buying group, with margins set to be squeezed and subs diminishing this kind of initiative has to be the way forward.
I hope you will all support it and get involved.
We have been approached by several established buying groups who saw opportunity to expand their membership but none ever managed to convince us that they could truly make a difference and the secrecy and membership fees that comes wIth traditional buying groups conflicts with our principles of free farmer access and freedom to share information.
We like the way that none Ag sites such as groupon have been able to aggregate demand to get users better deals and were also keen to use technology rather than offices full of expensive staff to build a buying group with a difference, one with much lower costs meaning we can focus on getting the best possible prices for users.
Farmdeals is the result, we have been developing the idea and the app technology over the last 12 months and are now ready to launch in beta form to a small group of farmers and suppliers.
Key differences over other buying groups include:
- It will have no joining or membership fee and will be open and free to all UK farmers
- It will not insist on commitment to use exclusively, members are free to buy from their existing suppliers or even buying groups
- It will not insist upon price secrecy, in fact actively sharing deals available will be encouraged to try and get everyone even better prices
- It will use digital technology to keep operation costs lower than traditional buying groups
We are now looking for 50 farmers ahead of a early December launch of the app. Fuel will be the first product available so those testers should idealy have intention to buy fuel or heating oils through December / January.
If interested go to https://www.farmdeals.ag/ where more is explained and beta testers can apply to get involved.
Fill out the registration form and we will be in contact, in early December you will be invited to download the simple app.
If all goes well we will open up to all in the spring and add other products like ag chems, fertilisers and animal feeds.
If just 5% of TFF members use Farm Deals we can very quickly become the UK’s biggest buying group and certainly the UK‘s lowest cost buying group, with margins set to be squeezed and subs diminishing this kind of initiative has to be the way forward.
I hope you will all support it and get involved.
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