Articles in Agriculture

THE Co-operative Group has announced the sale, for £ 75 million, of Associated Co-operative Creameries (ACC) to Dairy Farmers of Britain (DFB). DFB markets two billion litres of milk per year from 3,250 member farms. The acquisition of the £ 400 million turnover ACC makes DFB the largest vertically integrated dairy co-operative in the UK. ACC currently processes and manufactures one billion litres of liquid milk, 20,000 tonnes of cheese and 14,000 tonnes of value added milk products ...

THE Co-operative Group has submitted plans for a major wind farm development on its Goole farming estate, following a year of environmental study and public consultation. The proposed Twin Rivers Wind Farm, containing 14 wind turbines on a 630-acre site at Pasture Farm, will make a significant contribution to the region's energy needs as well as opening up public access to the countryside, linking with the nearby Blacktoft Sands Nature Reserve.

THE Co-operative Group's farming business, farmcare, is to withdraw from dairy farming in order to concentrate resources on arable, fruit and vegetable production and its contract farming business. Farmcare currently produces over 20 million litres of milk a year at four UK locations in Ayrshire, Cheshire, Leicestershire and Shropshire. The announcement will mean the loss of 48 jobs, most of them part-time.