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<blockquote data-quote="Bignor Farmer" data-source="post: 7022053" data-attributes="member: 4405"><p>We’ve been Warburtons growers for as long as I can remember. The trouble in recent years has been Openfield’s lack of presence in the South East compared to the past. Haulage has been a battle for several years now and I guess Frontier opens the South East back up which is a big milling wheat area.</p><p></p><p>I also thoroughly dislike the structure and complexity of the current contract. I grow 2 varieties which I have to compete to grow, then each variety gets split onto “A” & “B” contracts, some of which is on a pool, some on PD and there is no guarantee that they will use the “B” tonnage anyway, if it doesn’t get used by Warburtons then I have a pile of 12.5% wheat that I have to market through Openfield who will be £5/t lower than other merchants because of haulage and no homes for it in the SE.</p><p>The seed that I have to buy from Openfield is always the most expensive each year.</p><p>I’m not sure how much of this complexity is down to Openfield and how much is down to Warburtons? Time will tell.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bignor Farmer, post: 7022053, member: 4405"] We’ve been Warburtons growers for as long as I can remember. The trouble in recent years has been Openfield’s lack of presence in the South East compared to the past. Haulage has been a battle for several years now and I guess Frontier opens the South East back up which is a big milling wheat area. I also thoroughly dislike the structure and complexity of the current contract. I grow 2 varieties which I have to compete to grow, then each variety gets split onto “A” & “B” contracts, some of which is on a pool, some on PD and there is no guarantee that they will use the “B” tonnage anyway, if it doesn’t get used by Warburtons then I have a pile of 12.5% wheat that I have to market through Openfield who will be £5/t lower than other merchants because of haulage and no homes for it in the SE. The seed that I have to buy from Openfield is always the most expensive each year. I’m not sure how much of this complexity is down to Openfield and how much is down to Warburtons? Time will tell. [/QUOTE]
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