Frontier Agriculture teams up with Esri UK to bring location intelligence to farming

Frontier Agriculture has signed a new partnership with Esri UK, enabling it to create advanced geospatial solutions for the UK farming industry. By providing a better understanding of location data across the entire lifecycle of food production, the collaboration aims to tackle some of the major challenges facing arable farming today, including how to become more resilient and sustainable.

Formed in 2005 as a joint venture between Associated British Foods and Cargill plc, Frontier Agriculture is an agricultural business specialising in crop production and grain marketing, with an annual turnover of around £1.5bn.

The 3-year Managed Cloud Service agreement will give Frontier access to the Esri ArcGIS system, allowing it to embed the technology into existing applications and build innovative new solutions, delivering the benefits of taking a more geographic approach to its 14,000+ farmer customer base. Priorities will include connecting disparate parts of the food production process, creating farming digital twins and improving the transparency of food supply chains to demonstrate where and how food is grown.

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