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Frontier Fengrain tie up??
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<blockquote data-quote="Hay Hoe Lets Mow" data-source="post: 5862822" data-attributes="member: 111352"><p>I don't buy into this "big bad multinational" argument. Frontier are investing more in British Agriculture than any other merchant in the industry today, surely that is good for us all, regardless of the businesses parentage?!</p><p></p><p>As for Frontier controlling the market due to scale... again I don't buy into this. Does anyone actually know their market share of UK Grain, I would be surprised if it is over 30% and probably less???</p><p></p><p>I still see the grain market as very competitive with plenty of options. As farmers if we don't like a certain merchant, we simply do not deal with them, with plenty of other options. I do however think that understanding businesses balance sheet is becoming more important when deciding who to market grain with and who to avoid even though they offer an extra 50p per tonne.</p><p></p><p>Undoubtedly there are both good and bad small and large grain businesses in the UK, and good and bad farmer owned businesses. Being farmer owned alone however does not make a business good... lets just look at some of the farmer owned co-op that have gone pop costing farmers considerable money (only recently Angus Cereals) and don't even get me started on some of the pool results of the farmer owned businesses.....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hay Hoe Lets Mow, post: 5862822, member: 111352"] I don't buy into this "big bad multinational" argument. Frontier are investing more in British Agriculture than any other merchant in the industry today, surely that is good for us all, regardless of the businesses parentage?! As for Frontier controlling the market due to scale... again I don't buy into this. Does anyone actually know their market share of UK Grain, I would be surprised if it is over 30% and probably less??? I still see the grain market as very competitive with plenty of options. As farmers if we don't like a certain merchant, we simply do not deal with them, with plenty of other options. I do however think that understanding businesses balance sheet is becoming more important when deciding who to market grain with and who to avoid even though they offer an extra 50p per tonne. Undoubtedly there are both good and bad small and large grain businesses in the UK, and good and bad farmer owned businesses. Being farmer owned alone however does not make a business good... lets just look at some of the farmer owned co-op that have gone pop costing farmers considerable money (only recently Angus Cereals) and don't even get me started on some of the pool results of the farmer owned businesses..... [/QUOTE]
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