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Scotts was founded in 1868 by Orlando M. Scott as a premium seed company for the U.S. agricultural industry. In the early 1900s, the company began a lawn grass seed business for homeowners, and in 1924, became the first company to ship grass seed products directly to stores. Prior to 1924, Scotts products were only available through the mail. [5]
The company is owned by 2,800 Danish grass seed growers through DLF AmbA, and employs more than 2000 people in over 20 countries. DLF supplies clover and grass seeds for more than 100 countries for purposes ranging from forage grasses for agriculture to turf grasses for both the professional and private markets.
The Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) is a levy board funded by farmers and growers and some other parts of the supply chain. It aims to enhance farm business efficiency and competitiveness in the areas of: pork, beef and lamb production in England; dairy, potatoes and horticulture in Great Britain; and cereals and oilseeds in the United Kingdom.
Mole Valley Farmers is a retail and agricultural supply business with its headquarters in Southwest England. It is run as a cooperative and in 2022-23 the company had a turnover of £610 million. As well as 50 stores, the firm owns feed mills, fertiliser blending plants, a specialist mineral plant, and farm building division.
Frontier Agriculture Ltd is the UK's largest crop production and grain marketing business, jointly owned by Associated British Foods and Cargill plc. Frontier has a market share of 20% of the grain market , trades around 5,000,000 tonnes (5,500,000 tons) of grain per year, and has an annual turnover in excess of £1.5 billion.
Robert [3] and John Garton made a commercial start as R. & J. Garton. [4] They launched their first variety, 'Abundance' oat, in 1892. Generous publicity followed in the press, together with the publication of articles by botanists in the Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, and in the Transactions of the Royal Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland in 1894 and 1898. [5]
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Agriculture in London is a rather small enterprise, with only 8.6% of the Greater London area being used for commercial farming, nearly all of which is close to Greater London's outer boundaries. There are a few city farms closer to the centre of the city and about 30,000 allotments . [ 1 ]