Arable Business Groups

Arable Business Groups (ABGs) provide facilitated discussions to help groups of farmers improve their business management skills.

What do Arable Business Groups do?

ABGs aim to:

Understand costs of production*
Investigate pricing strategies
Share information
Identify best practice
Focus on issues that affect members’ businesses
Make efficient use of industry experts

ABGs are part of our Cereals & Oilseeds Farm Excellence activities.

*Understanding cost of production is the initial focus of any group meeting. Members of an ABG have access to Farmbench, our web-based benchmarking tool. Farmbench allows you to make confidential cost comparisons with group, regional and national data.

Get involved

To start or join an ABG, contact your local Farmbench manager.

Distribution of Arable Business Groups

Scotland

Borders
Fife
South Aberdeenshire
St Boswells
North Angus
South Angus
North Aberdeenshire
Black Isle

Northern Ireland

Limavady

North East and East Midlands

Darlington
Berwick
Lincolnshire
Huggate
York

East Anglia and South East

Vale of Belvoir
Northampton

West Midlands and Wales

Pembrokeshire
Shropshire
Hereford
Cotswolds

East Anglia

Dereham
Stowmarket & Diss
Chelmsford
Duxford
Huntingdon

South West

Malmesbury
Devon
Taunton
South Wiltshire & Dorset
Wantage
Winchester

Further information

Use Farmbench (online benchmarking tool)

Find out how Farmbench powers discussions at our ABGs