Since 1870 we’ve lived and breathed malting. With this passion and expertise, and by combining traditional and modern techniques, we create an impressive range of malted and non-malted products, including several unique and exclusive barley malts.
There is nothing more we love than talking to brewers and distillers so if you have any questions, or would like to arrange a call with a member of our team, please feel free to get in touch – we would love to hear from you!
Field Forward is a framework created by us in partnership with our Grower Groups with the purpose of improving on-farm sustainability. Our farmers will submit data on our four impact areas: soil health, water usage, biodiversity, and climate. This data gives us an overview of current farm practices and highlights where improvements can be made.
Group targets will be set in partnership with the farmers to drive these improvements. We will integrate these targets into a group wide continuous improvement plan which will highlight opportunities for rolling out farm practices for making improvements towards these targets. The performance of our Grower Groups will be audited by an independent third party to verify our achievements, in alignment with SAI Platform’s, Regenerating Together Programme.
We collect data using Map of Ag across the four impact areas: soil health, water, biodiversity, and GHG emissions. We have surveyed our growers on their current practices, and used national datasets, to understand the context in the region. This highlights opportunities where improvements can be made.
Our farmers feed back to the group on the practices that work best across different soil types and regions. This drives real positive change across the group, and quickly.
In partnership with the merchants and farmers, we have set realistic targets based on their land and circumstances. This is entirely driven by the results from the data collection. We are not dictating the practices that farms should implement because every farm is different and what works in one farm may not work in another.
We track the same farms year after year to show genuine progress over time. This repeatability is key and unique to our initiative. We are driving transition through a continuous improvement plan with measurable targets.
Our claims will be verified through the SAI Platform’s Regenerating Together Programme – a global standard for sustainable agriculture that can be applied to all crops, in all contexts, across the globe.
We have successfully piloted the Regenerating Together Framework (RTF) alongside SAI Platform to understand how the implementation of the framework will work in practice. The framework is adaptable to individual contexts and is built on farmer engagement. Recieving SAI Platform’s approval for the alignment of Field Forward with the RTF is key to our third-party verification process.
