1. Frontier Agriculture Ltd
Jon Duffy
Frontier Agriculture Ltd
Malvern Farming Conference
15th November 2012

2. Activities Grain Marketing Grain Logistics Grain Storage Grain Exports
Seed Processing
Crop Nutrition

3. Activities Crop Agronomy Agronomy Trials Precision Farming
Contract Services

4. POWER IN AGRICULTURE HAS POWER AGRICULTURE and a very bright future!
Resources
Economics
Politics
AGRICULTURE HAS POWER
and a very bright future!

6. London Wheat Futures Real power sits with the consumer/retailer/
Paradigm shift of power. Consumer is squeezed, retailing is putting margin pressure on processors – power sits with farmers & traders
David Heath: “we need a production supply industry that concentrates on productivity and can thrive without unnecessary barriers from Government”
Real power sits with the consumer/retailer/
processor
Tony Blair: “UK needs to concentrate on organic niche farming”

7. Northern Hemisphere Grain Belt Mid-Latitude Demand Concentration
Projected World Population Growth 2011 to 2050 (From 7 to 9.5 billion?)
Northern Hemisphere Grain Belt
Growth in corn imports
= 40.9 MMT
Growth in wheat imports
= 40.4 MMT
Asia
+1.8 Billion
Africa
+1 Billion
Latin America
+300 million
Mid-Latitude Demand Concentration
Southern Hemisphere Grain Belt 7
Source: US Wheat Associates

8. Second Agricultural Revolution
Collaboration in the supply chain

9. Second Agricultural Revolution
Collaboration in the supply chain

10. Second Agricultural Revolution
Collaboration in the supply chain

11. The UK has to... Identify strengths Embrace technology Re-invest
Employ the best people
Recognise comparative advantages