Profiles
Trinity founder outlines his digital vision
Trinity AgTech, a new entrant to the UK digital agriculture sector, launched its new digital assistant Sandy in the UK last month. AgriTrade News spoke to Trinity founder and executive chairman Hosein Khajeh-Hosseiny about the rationale behind his investment. Dr...
Former foodstuffs raise feed industry sustainability
It is six years since a trade body was formed to recognise the important role that former human food products play as an animal feed material, while also lifting the sector’s operating standards. Paul Featherstone, chairman of the UK Former Foodstuffs Processors...
Yagro digital platform aims to cut costs of farm trading
Yagro, launched earlier this year, is a digital business-to-business platform that seeks to link farm suppliers and their customers together in a way that removes cost and inefficiency from the distribution function, primarily through better information sharing.
Richard Massey marks 50 years at the mill
Richard Massey, the fourth generation chairman of family-owned Massey Feeds, has completed 50 years service with the business. Despite subsequent growth, it is still based at Holmes Chapel in Cheshire where it was first established in 1878. “The business now is...
Frontier Agriculture – ten years on
This year marks the 10th anniversary of the formation of Frontier Agriculture, the UK’s largest arable marketing business, through the amalgamation of Allied Grain and Banks Cargill.
Early grass silage tests show promising quality
Initial results from the analysis of over 1,000 first cut grass silage samples by Trouw Nutrition GB point to better feed quality than the 2014 crop, with potential on a par with the quality seen in 2013.“These results will come as good news for dairy farmers facing a...