Leading carrot supplier to address Northern summit

Mr Poskitt’s farm is one of the country’s largest suppliers of carrots to Asda having built his business up from being a 600-acre tenanted farm 30 years ago.

Today he grows carrots, sugar beet, potatoes, parsnips and swede over 6,000 acres of land spread across Yorkshire and other parts of the UK. The business has a turnover of more than £30m and employs over 200 people.

At the conference on Wednesday, November 13 at Hexham Mart, he will share his experiences of managing relationships with major supermarket chains and the challenges of business expansion.

Mr Poskitt said: “Poskitts have always been carrot growers but over the last 15 years the company has expanded the vegetable business considerably by growing with retailers food service companies and wholesalers as well as developing a successful prepared vegetable division.”

As well as appearing alongside Mr Heath, the Minister for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Mr Poskitt will be joined by economist Allan Buckwell and a selection of leading arable and livestock farmers.

The Northern Farming Conference is held jointly by the Country Land and Business Association, Strutt & Parker, Bond Dickinson, Armstrong Watson, Catchment Sensitive Farming and Gibson & Co Solicitors, and is supported by the Agricultural Mortgage Corporation (AMC).

Tickets cost £40 per person or £20 for farmers with a CPH number.

For more details, visit www.northernfarmingconference.org.uk or call 01748 907070.