Frontier Agriculture Ltd is the UK's largest crop production and grain marketing business, jointly owned by Associated British Foods and Cargill plc.
[1] They manage 160 agronomists, 1,900,000 acres (750,000 ha) of land, and are supported by a national trials programme [2] comprising 12,000 replicated plots.
Frontier's main offices are in Perth, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Cranswick, Witham St Hughs, Diss, Sandy, Hermitage and Ross-on-Wye.
Following Cargill's merger with Banks Agriculture, Mark Aitchison was appointed MD of the newly formed business.
[4] YAGRO is a provider of data analytics for the UK agricultural industry and was founded in 2015 by Richard Sears, Gareth Davies (CEO) and Dan Jolly.
Also in October 2021, work began to build the largest oat-processing facility in Europe,[5] a joint venture between Frontier, a farmer-owned cooperative, and Anglia Maltings Holdings (AMH), a food and drink ingredient manufacturer.