Survey highlights big differences in Buying Groups’ membership charges

A comparison of buying group membership charges conducted by AtlasFram Group, the UK’s leading farmer-owned inputs purchasing and crop marketing business, has highlighted dramatic differences in the cost of belonging to such an organisation.“Farmers might assume that the cost of belonging to a buying group and the benefits of doing so are much the same, but our research shows that is not the case. In some cases the differences in charges is over 50 per cent, so farmers should look closely at what they are being asked to pay and question whether it represents value for money,” states Richard