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Cargill – Manchester Gold

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Cargill's starch and glucose manufacturing plant in Manchester is a huge consumer of feed wheat and Frontier has the exclusive contract for supply. Approximately 750,000 tonnes of wheat is used annually to make starch and glucose, used in the manufacture of products such as confectionery, pharmaceuticals, alcoholic beverages, pet food and soft drinks.


By becoming a member of our Manchester Gold wheat club growers can benefit from a range of attractive member benefits which reward farmers whose wheat is processed at the plant. They include:

  • MG logoFlexible collections - Customised collection to suit your loading requirements

  • Online access to contracts - Track your Manchester Gold contracts using MyFarm

  • Weights and analysis by text - Receive details of your load within 30 minutes of tipping

  • Gold Standard marketing - This is a unique risk management contract giving you the opportunity to fix a guaranteed minimum price, while still allowing you to capture any potential market upside

  • Regular updates - Including grain market texts, bringing you the latest updates

  • Average moisture contracts - For example members supplying one load of wheat at 14.5% moisture and another at 15.5% would see the moisture claim on the second load credited back to their account

  • Average kilo weight contract - Purchase a minimum of 10 tonnes of wheat seed or have a minimum of 20 tonnes of seed re-cleaned by our mobile seed cleaners, then contracts of 4 loads or more processed at Manchester will qualify. The averaging will include any loads between 70kg/hl and 76kg/hl.

 

If you have any questions about the Manchester Gold wheat club or wish to register, please call 0161 372 3000.

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Frontier is a proud partner of Warburtons and is responsible for sourcing all of the UK milling wheat used in its range of bakery products.

 


Championing sustainable crop production  

The partnership between Frontier and Warburtons offers milling wheat growers across the country some excellent opportunities. It is centred on a commitment to sustainable crop production and supports UK farmers to add value to the supply chain through shared knowledge and expertise.  

 
The Warburtons Growers Group

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Frontier growers who meet the contractual requirements and protocols for growing Warburtons wheat can become part of the Warburtons Growers Group.

The Group facilitates the supply of wheat from over 200 farmers to five UK flour mills located in Whitley Bridge, Wellingborough, Peterborough, Harlow and Kirkcaldy.

Eligible growers must grow wheat approximately within a 50-mile radius of a mill or port that is supplying the mill and crucially, must show a commitment to developing sustainable farming practices in line with future agricultural policies.


A premium contract

Growers supplying wheat as part of the Warburtons Growers Group can earn a min/max premium over the feed wheat price in the locality of the nearest Warburtons mill.

 

The benefits

Growers who are part of the Warburtons Growers Group benefit from end-to-end support via Frontier’s specialist teams. As well as receiving market insights and grain trading expertise, every grower will have access to:

  • A Frontier agronomist to help meet contract specifications
  • A supply of certified, high quality seed from Frontier or GFP Agriculture
  • Technical expertise on crop protection and nutrition strategies
  • Precision technology services and support from SOYL
  • Environmental management and stewardship guidance from Kings Crops
  • A range of digital solutions through Frontier’s MyFarm platform. 

 

A choice of marketing options

If supplying wheat to Warburtons, growers have a choice of Frontier marketing options:

  • Utilising the Frontier wheat pool (which also attracts a Warburtons premium). Learn more about the Frontier pools
  • The choice to price own tonnage throughout the year
  • A combination of the above. 

 

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Find out more

If you have questions about the Warburtons Growers Group, or would like to know more about the contract specifications, protocol and eligibility for supplying Warburtons, please speak to your Frontier farm trader or agronomist.

Alternatively, you can get in touch with us here.

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Work Placements

Our placement roles include a commercial rotation, a sustainable crop production rotation and a home-based technical placement.  

We are now recruiting for our 2022-23 work placements.  

If you are interested in applying for a placement with us, you can find details about the three roles we offer below or via our job vacancies page at https://www.jobtrain.co.uk/frontieragriculture/. For queries or further information, email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

 

Commercial rotation   Sustainable crop production rotation   IntraCrop rotation (home-based)

As an integral part of the team, this rotation is a great opportunity to gain a full understanding of the business across a period of 12 months.

Split across four business areas, the placement will give the successful student the chance to develop their commercial knowledge while working in the farm trading, forwarding and operations teams, as well as joining Kings, a leading specialist crops provider and division of Frontier.  

Following this rotation, some of our previous placement students have gone on to take roles in our commercial, agronomy and trading teams after completing their degree.

     

This placement, titled ‘sustainability’, has an overarching link to the commercial teams, such as Agronomy and Trading. The placement will involve opportunities throughout the year to learn more about these relationships and to experience different areas of Frontier and how they depend on and interact with each other for the customer.  

Split across three business areas, the placement will give the successful student the chance to build their technical knowledge within the sustainable crop production team, work alongside sales area managers in a commercial role and develop a sound understanding of farm legislation within the MyCompliance team.  

This is a new placement, which reflects Frontier’s commitment to sustainability.

      

IntraCrop manufactures a range of speciality inputs including plant biostimulants, adjuvants and seed treatments and is a virtual business, connected via a number of online platforms.This placement will give the successful student the chance to experience the IntraCrop business within commercial, marketing, and administrative functions. During the placement, the student will assist in our extensive trials programme, conduct market research and analyse and interpret data to prepare technical content.There is the potential for an overseas visit whilst working with IntraCrop, therefore you must hold a valid and current passport.

 

Kathryn's story

Kathryn, one of our recent work placement students, described her time with Frontier as "a great opportunity to explore multiple sections of the business in just one year - an experience that not many other companies offer." During her time at Frontier, she had the opportunity to work with different teams throughout the business which greatly increased her confidence.

Watch the below video to hear Kathryn talk about what a normal working day is like on a work placement at Frontier, as well as her experience of our recruitment process.

 

 

                                                                           

 

 

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