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Sustainable Crop Production
We work with farmers and grain consumers to create long-term, viable farming systems that encourage high-quality crop production and help our farmed environment to become more resilient.
This means taking a holistic approach that balances food production and the need to maintain and increase natural capital assets, such as soil, water, air quality and biodiversity.
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Optimised crop production |
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Help with product selection, genetic and biological solutions and complete nutrition programmes Access to the latest variety insights and recommendations based on evidence and extensive research through our trials network. As well as supporting you with product choice, our qualified advisors will help you compile bespoke nutrition programmes to suit your circumstances too, ensuring any actives or ingredients comply with new regulations and the sustainability goals of your business. We can also help with alternative areas of nutrition management, such as the incorporation of catch crops to support IPM strategies, use of biological products or adoption of precision crop production technology to optimise inputs. |
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Soil health and function |
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Helping you to get a greater understanding of your soils with our range of soil analyses All of our advisors are specialists in soil health and management, ensuring your farm's greatest asset is adequately managed to support long-term food production but also well cared for as a valuable natural capital asset of it's own. Our technical advisors can support you with a range of soil reporting and management packages that are underpinned by advice and recommendations from our soil and plant health experts. A network of farm-based research trials within our 3D Thinking programme also mean we can share scientically-proven management techniques, while services such as precision soil sampling and the provision of specialist environmental crops can help you truly understand what's going on within your fields. |
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Water quality and management |
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Support to help you manage and protect water quality on your farm Water is a valuable natural capital asset and its quality and overall protection are intrinsic to agriculture. It is key to good soil health and structure which are vital for infiltration, flood prevention and sustainable farming systems, with legilsation in place to outline best practice considerations where water and agriculture intercept. Our teams can support you with the appropriate management of water on farm, ensuring this valuable resource is protected in line with regulations such as the Water Framework Directive and crop protection stewardship guidelines. More about how we can support you with water management on farm can be found here. |
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| Biodiversity and environmental management |
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Manage your farm's natural capital through agri-environment and privately funded schemes to support your crop production objectives Our specialist crops division, Kings Crops, provides a range of services including industry leading seed supply, the preparation and submission of scheme agreements, crop protection and nutrition advice, support with soil management, Environmental Impact Assessments, conservation and sporting expertise and the provision of environmental mapping and recording tools. |
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Energy and carbon management |
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Working with you to understand and manage farm emissions Given that agriculture is land-based, there is the ability to both reduce emissions and sequester them. Our specialists work with farm businesses to help them better understand their Scope 1 and 2 emissions, while our direct relationships with food processers and retailers mean we can support the wider supply chain to manage Scope 3 emissions in the long term. Key to this work is data capture and interpretation, but we understand that there are nuances for calculating carbon footprints and GHG emissions. With a lot of crop production data captured on farm already, we're working to support farms and supply chains with the requirements of reporting to meet future sustainability goals. |
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Business insights |
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Keep every element of your business at your fingertips with our farm management platform, MyFarm From general farm account management through to planning and recording all of your agronomy, grain marketing, environmental and precision farming actions, MyFarm makes it easy to take a whole-farm approach to sustainable crop production. MyFarm's analytics tools powered by Yagro support you to monitor business peformance and cost of production metrics to aid future decisions, with sight of all your records, access to risk management tools and the option to use interactive maps from SOYL's MySOYL application helping you make informed decisions and easily evidence your work. Find out more about MyFarm | Learn more about SOYL |
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Legislative compliance |
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Get support with farm policy, legal obligations, cross-compliance, Farm Assurance schemes and stewardship With the expertise of our MyCompliance team you can check your farm is meeting regulations relating to water quality, nutrient availability, integrated pest management, pollution, the protection of habitats and overall farm biodiversity. All of the support provided is bespoke to you and supports with audits and inspections. Click here for more detail about MyCompliance. |
| Unsure which funding options are right for your farm? Ask yourself these key questions |
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What have you got on farm and what are you already doing? What existing environmental features do you have on farm? Are there specific opportunities in your area?
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What is your strategic direction for the farm? What is your appetite for risk? Are you keen to look at trials and innovation? How far into the future do you plan? Are you going to require changes to infrastructure? Do you need to gain additional or specific knowledge and skills?
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Do you have the data/information needed to understand how your farm is performing? Are there areas that are difficult to farm? Have you looked at biomass or yield data? Have you benchmarked?
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How will funding fit within your farm? Will you need additional equipment? Will it require changes to your rotation? How will this change your farming practices?
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What are you going to be committing to? What are the data requirements? What are the contract terms? What environmental outcomes are you delivering?
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Do the finances stack up? What will be the cost of implementation? Have you compared crop and funding gross margins? Are there tax implications? Are there opportunities to integrate multiple funding opportunities?
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How will it support future compliance requirements? Does the funding help you to comply with legislation? Are there assurance implications?
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Who can help, or who do you need to talk to? How can we support you?
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As well as supporting UK farmers, at Frontier we're taking a strategic approach to growing our own business in a sustainable way through The Responsible Choice (TRC).
You can learn more about our sustainability strategy, including our commitment to lower carbon emissions from our own operations, here.
Crop nutrition enquiry form
Thank you for your interest in crop nutrition with Frontier. We aim to respond to all enquiries within 48 hours.
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Public and private funding
On-farm environmental actions are being increasingly rewarded through publicly funded schemes, but with so many options to consider it can be hard to know what will work best for your farm.
As food manufacturers and grain consumers look to improve the sustainability credentials of their own supply chains, privately funded sustainable crop production programmes are increasingly entering the market too.
While it can be tempting to opt for the highest paying options, they all offer different environmental and economic benfits so it's important to take a holistic approach and firstly consider if, how, and where they could work on your farm.
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Unsure how to navigate future funding? Follow our 8-step approach. |
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What have you got on farm and what are you already doing? What existing environmental features do you have on farm? Are there specific opportunities in your area?
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What is your strategic direction for the farm? What is your appetite for risk? Are you keen to look at trials and innovation? How far into the future do you plan? Are you going to require changes to infrastructure? Do you need to gain additional or specific knowledge and skills?
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Do you have the data/information needed to understand how your farm is performing? Are there areas that are difficult to farm? Have you looked at biomass or yield data? Have you benchmarked?
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How will funding fit within your farm? Will you need additional equipment? Will it require changes to your rotation? How will this change your farming practices?
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What are you going to be committing to? What are the data requirements? What are the contract terms? What environmental outcomes are you delivering?
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Do the finances stack up? What will be the cost of implementation? Have you compared crop and funding gross margins? Are there tax implications? Are there opportunities to integrate multiple funding opportunities?
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How will it support future compliance requirements? Does the funding help you to comply with legislation? Are there assurance implications?
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Who can help, or who do you need to talk to? How can we support you?
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As well as supporting UK farmers, at Frontier we're taking a strategic approach to growing our own business in a sustainable way through The Responsible Choice (TRC).
You can learn more about our sustainability strategy, including our commitment to lower carbon emissions from our own operations, here.
Work Placements
Applications for our 2025-26 student work placements are now open.
If you are interested in applying for a placement with us, you can find details about the 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.. Deadline for applications - Monday 18th November 2024.
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As an integral part of the team, this rotation is a great opportunity to gain a full understanding of the business across a 12-month period. Split across five business areas, the placement will give the successful student the chance to develop their commercial knowledge while working in the farm trading, forwarding and grain administration and operations teams, as well as joining Kings, a leading specialist crops provider and division of Frontier. This role will be based at Sandy, Bedfordshire for the first seven months and then Diss, Suffolk for the remainder of the year. Travel to sites and events will be part of this role, therefore a driving license is a must. 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. |
Our marketing and communications placement offers the successful student the opportunity to become a member of our growing full-service, in-house marketing and communications team, supporting with the planning and implementation of a variety of projects that range from corporate communications and PR to website management and event support. In addition to working with key internal stakeholders, the successful student will liaise with external agencies and suppliers to successfully manage the creation of marketing content. To be based at Witham St. Hughs (between Newark and Lincoln) at least three days a wek, with the rest of the week home-based. The role is working in a small in-house team and will be cheifly split 50/50 between communications and customer marketing activity. This rotation would be suited to a proactive student with an appetite to learn and gain a wide variety of experience during their placement year. Travel to some events and sites will be part of this role, therefore a full driving licence is a must. |
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.