Frontier to blame for holding the OSR price down?

[PostHarvest]

Only thing is this importes osr wont be farm assured. Can i find out when these boys in Ukraine cleaned their trailers out?

When I worked in Ukraine, you could get a certificate that stated anything you liked for $20. Organic / Farm assured / Irrigated with holy water - Anything

 

[JCfarmer]

I'm sure the Russian Mafia in eastern europe have assured the farm assurance man they are assured! If they needed to be assured that is!

 

[legin]

Best sell early next year then!

Only hearsay from a lorry driver hauling into Cargills at Liverpool, said they can't get the oil out of the stuff coming in on a boat, his exact words were "it's sh!te".

I heard it was poor quality.

 

[Brisel]

Fram Farmers are linked with ADM for crop marketing purposes, UO boss is ex Frontier I think?

The outgoing AF chief executive, Jon Duffy, is ex Frontier too. So what? I wouldn't mind a bit of experience in a board member working in my interests.

 

[yellow belly]

What we need is to crush the rape produce a higher quality product and market it taking out the crusher giving us a product that is needed
and producing a gm free neonic free oil and protein feed
labelling is the key under post brexit regime the government could allow proper labelling this product is produced with no gm in the food chain

 

[fudge]

What we need is to crush the rape produce a higher quality product and market it taking out the crusher giving us a product that is needed
and producing a gm free neonic free oil and protein feed
labelling is the key under post brexit regime the government could allow proper labelling this product is produced with no gm in the food chain

The US government would construe that as an unfair barrier to trade. Trump thinks he’s “doing well” in a trade dispute with China why should the UK be different?

 

[teslacoils]

What we need are unified farmer coops with equivalent market share to the end users, and a representative sent to each mill or crush to audit them to ensure the grain or seed they use meets UK quality specs if they want their product to be allowed to be sold in the UK.

 

[Brisel]

What we need are unified farmer coops with equivalent market share to the end users, and a representative sent to each mill or crush to audit them to ensure the grain or seed they use meets UK quality specs if they want their product to be allowed to be sold in the UK.

The trouble is, we don't have a good track record of co-ops in the UK. The smaller ones like Wessex have been snapped up by multinationals like Cefetra, the marketing of others has gone to the big boys like Frontier for Camgrain and Fengrain. Openfield have had a rough few years though are profitable again now. Why not? Growing pains as they transition from a small co-op into something that requires proper management by corporate professionals? Break even running with no reinvestment because the members want the best price and a dividend? We just jump ship for a few pence more from other merchants. Dairy is a prime example - Milk Marque had a strong position (which they got caught abusing) but got split up. DFoB went bust & Milk Link nearly went too. I can't be holier-than-thou either. I stopped selling grain to Openfield for a while because they were a) £3/t lower than the rest and b) had a bad credit rating. I am a member of the biggest farmer owned buying group though.

 

[teslacoils]

Indeed. It's sad that it's our own fault for being sh!t at working together.

 

[willy]

I like frontier, their paper work is second to none their timeliness is normally better than anyone else and they may import but they also export a lot of uk farm produce, it’s the way the world works.

 

[Hindsight]

http://link.ahdb.org.uk/m/1/45178595/p1-b19338-32e56dc5d6984b179a4efa24e9e9258f/2/769/673014b8-a6e1-44bb-b81a-23bb4e8c7402

Judging by this article UK government is exporting rapeseed production to Ukraine, subject to ones opinion on the impact of government ban on neonics. .