AHDB

The Agri­cul­ture and Hor­ti­cul­ture Devel­op­ment Board (AHDB) is com­mit­ting levy sup­port for Open Farm Sun­day. This com­mit­ment forms part of AHDB​’s strat­e­gy to raise aware­ness among con­sumers of food and where it comes from and to high­light farm­ers’ role in pro­duc­ing food and man­ag­ing the coun­try­side. AHDB is an evi­dence-based levy board with a piv­otal role to make the indus­try sec­tors it sup­ports more com­pet­i­tive and sus­tain­able. It is fund­ed by farm­ers, grow­ers and proces­sors in the sup­ply chain through statu­to­ry levies. Fur­ther infor­ma­tion on AHDB can be found at www​.ahdb​.org​.uk.

Arla

One in four British dairy farm­ers are an own­er of Arla Foods, a glob­al dairy coop­er­a­tive and the largest dairy com­pa­ny in the UK. Open Farm Sun­day is a fan­tas­tic ini­tia­tive and one that Arla is delight­ed to sup­port again this year, for the 10^th year in a row. Across the UK, Arla farm­ers will open their gates and show the pub­lic what it takes to make milk, nature’s orig­i­nal super­food. With Arla farm­ers being both own­ers and pro­duc­ers of Arla’s prod­ucts, Open Farm Sun­day is a great way to say thank you to the pub­lic for its sup­port in mak­ing Arla a lead­ing sup­pli­er of fresh milk, num­ber one in but­ter, spreads and cream and the largest cheese man­u­fac­tur­er in the UK.

ASDA

At Asda we believe that the best friend to the British farmer is the well-informed con­sumer which is why we are a prin­ci­pal spon­sor of Open Farm Sun­day. Open Farm Sun­day encour­ages farm­ers, across the entire food chain, to open their farm gates to the pub­lic. The aim is to build a greater con­nec­tion between farm­ers and their local com­mu­ni­ty, ulti­mate­ly edu­cat­ing con­sumers about where food comes from. For farm­ers the length and breadth of Great Britain, this pro­vides a fan­tas­tic oppor­tu­ni­ty. It means they can pub­li­cise their pres­ence in the local com­mu­ni­ty and teach oth­ers about the coun­try­side and what it means to be a British farmer.

BASF

At BASF we believe farm­ing is the biggest job on earth and it con­tin­ues to get more com­plex. That’s why we work with farm­ers across the UK to find the right bal­ance for suc­cess — sup­port­ing prof­itable, qual­i­ty, and sus­tain­able food pro­duc­tion. We are proud to be part of LEAF ini­tia­tives like Open Farm Sun­day, allow­ing farm­ers to demon­strate the hard work and pas­sion that goes into putting food on tables now, and for future generations. 

Co-op

At the Co-op, we sup­port the UK farm­ing indus­try and pro­mot­e British food. This can be seen in our com­mit­ment to only sell 100% British fresh and frozen meat in our own brand prod­ucts. From fresh beef, chick­en, pork and sausages to the meat in our sand­wich­es, chilled pies and ready meals – we make it easy for our cus­tomers to choose British. We have cre­at­ed long-term, sus­tain­able rela­tion­ships with farm­ers and sup­pli­ers, so that our sup­ply chains, which are built on hon­esty, fair­ness and trust, are com­plete­ly trans­par­ent for all to see. We are proud to be a prin­ci­pal spon­sor of farming’s nation­al open day and sup­port many of our farm­ers to open to the pub­lic on Open Farm Sunday.

Defra

Defra is pleased to con­tin­ue sup­port­ing the excel­lent work of Open Farm Sun­day in encour­ag­ing peo­ple, par­tic­u­lar­ly from our cities and towns, to re-con­nect with food pro­duc­tion and the nat­ur­al envi­ron­ment. Show­cas­ing the best of British farm­ing — one that is inno­v­a­tive and pro­duc­tive as well as improves the envi­ron­ment — helps the pub­lic have full trust and con­fi­dence in our food and the wel­fare of our ani­mals. We’d like peo­ple of all ages to know where their food comes from and how they can work with farm­ers for the ben­e­fit of their local com­mu­ni­ty. Farm vis­its play an impor­tant part in help­ing peo­ple, espe­cial­ly chil­dren, to learn more about nature and food pro­duc­tion allow­ing schools to use the farm as an ​‘out­door classroom’.

Farmers Weekly

Farm­ers Week­ly is the lead­ing farm­ing pub­li­ca­tion in the UK and is pleased to be the offi­cial media part­ner for Open Farm Sun­day. Con­nect­ing con­sumers with the peo­ple who grow their food and care for the coun­try­side is vital for the long term health of the indus­try. Farm­ers Week­ly has a proud his­to­ry of rep­re­sent­ing and inform­ing read­ers, and is pleased to sup­port the many farm­ers host­ing events as they get ready for the big day.

Frontier

Fron­tier Agri­cul­ture is the UK’s lead­ing crop pro­duc­tion and grain mar­ket­ing busi­ness, recog­nised for its close cus­tomer rela­tion­ships with farm­ers and grain con­sumers and its suc­cess­ful man­age­ment of the whole arable sup­ply chain. Fron­tier recog­nis­es the impor­tance of edu­cat­ing peo­ple about how their food is pro­duced in a sus­tain­able way and is delight­ed to sup­port its farmer cus­tomers and the wider farm­ing indus­try through its involve­ment with Open Farm Sunday.

John Deere

John Deere is delight­ed to join Open Farm Sun­day once again as the project’s machin­ery spon­sor. As well as being the world’s lead­ing man­u­fac­tur­er of agri­cul­tur­al, turf, con­struc­tion & forestry equip­ment, edu­ca­tion and the envi­ron­ment are two of the key prin­ci­ples of our world­wide busi­ness. Open Farm Sun­day pro­vides an ide­al oppor­tu­ni­ty, not only to show a wider pub­lic audi­ence how advanced farm­ing tech­nolo­gies are being applied to the ben­e­fit of farm­ing, effi­cient food pro­duc­tion and sound envi­ron­men­tal man­age­ment, includ­ing the reduc­tion of harm­ful emis­sions, but also to encour­age young peo­ple to con­sid­er a chal­leng­ing and worth­while career in farm­ing and agri­cul­tur­al engineering.

LEAF Marque

LEAF Mar­que is a lead­ing glob­al assur­ance sys­tem recog­nis­ing more sus­tain­ably farmed prod­ucts. LEAF Mar­que cer­ti­fied busi­ness­es have been inde­pen­dent­ly ver­i­fied against the robust LEAF Mar­que Stan­dard, which imple­ments more envi­ron­men­tal­ly sus­tain­able farm­ing prac­tices through Inte­grat­ed Farm Man­age­ment (IFM). LEAF Mar­que builds con­fi­dence among con­sumers and give farm­ers recog­ni­tion for their com­mit­ment to more sus­tain­able farming.

M&S

Marks and Spencer are a spe­cial­ist, high qual­i­ty food retail­er focus­ing on fresh­ness, spe­cial­i­ty and con­ve­nience. We val­ue the high stan­dards of our farm­ers, so we are doing all we can to sup­port them and help main­tain a pros­per­ous British agri­cul­tur­al indus­try. Research has shown us that our cus­tomers want to know more about where their food comes from, and they want clos­er links to the farm­ers who pro­duce it. Our farm­ers and grow­ers are pas­sion­ate about the high qual­i­ty food they sup­ply for Marks and Spencer. So we like to recog­nise their hard work and help pro­tect British agri­cul­ture by sup­port­ing var­i­ous events through­out the year. We are there­fore delight­ed to be a prin­ci­pal spon­sor of Open Farm Sunday.

McDonald's

McDonald’s have been proud­ly serv­ing com­mu­ni­ties across the UK and Ire­land since 1974. But this would not be pos­si­ble with­out over 23,000 British and Irish farm­ers, who help pro­duce the qual­i­ty ingre­di­ents that make the food we’re famous for. We are com­mit­ted to both the futures of farm­ers and the farm­ing indus­try, which is why we aim to build close rela­tion­ships with those we work with and invest in pro­grammes that sup­port farm­ers to be resilient and to make envi­ron­men­tal improve­ments. At McDonald’s, we’re incred­i­bly proud to sup­port events such as Open Farm Sun­day; not only to enable farm­ers to show­case their hard work and ded­i­ca­tion towards pro­duc­ing qual­i­ty food, but to con­nect our con­sumers to farm­ing and nature. We are delight­ed to play a part in rais­ing aware­ness that farm­ers are the most essen­tial ingre­di­ent of any product.

NFU

The NFU has sup­port­ed Open Farm Sun­day since its launch back in 2006, and we are delight­ed to be a prin­ci­pal spon­sor once again this year. Com­mu­ni­cat­ing the impor­tance of Back­ing British Farm­ing and how farm­ing deliv­ers for Britain is a key aim for the NFU and Open Farm Sun­day pro­vides the per­fect oppor­tu­ni­ty for many of our mem­bers to open up their farm gates and con­nect with the peo­ple around them. We are also very hap­py to be con­tin­u­ing our sup­port pro­vid­ing farm­ers with the infor­ma­tion and resource they need to make their Open Farm Sun­day events this year a suc­cess. For more infor­ma­tion about resources avail­able please email [email protected]

Sainsbury's

As a UK retail­er, we’re proud to sup­port British pro­duc­ers. As well as boost­ing the nation­al econ­o­my, we’re reduc­ing food trans­port miles. We’ve built strong rela­tion­ships through our UK Farmer and Grow­er Devel­op­ment Groups and are work­ing with these sup­pli­ers to devel­op a more resilient and sus­tain­able British agri­cul­tur­al indus­try. We’ve made a com­mit­ment to con­tin­ue to invest in the future of British farm­ing. Open Farm Sun­day demon­strates this com­mit­ment – it’s our oppor­tu­ni­ty to show our sup­port for British farm­ers who want to open their doors to the pub­lic and demon­strate togeth­er how vibrant, excit­ing and dynam­ic British agri­cul­ture is. We are very proud to be a prin­ci­pal spon­sor of Open Farm Sun­day this year. 

Tesco

We have a long-term com­mit­ment to help chil­dren have a health­i­er and hap­pi­er rela­tion­ship with food. We believe that if chil­dren under­stand more about food and where it comes from, they can make bet­ter deci­sions about what they put on their plates when they grow up. We want to help chil­dren see, up close, where their food is grown and hear about how it’s made — from the experts who pro­duce it. So we’re delight­ed to be a prin­ci­pal spon­sor of Open Farm Sun­day this year.

Waitrose & Partners

Wait­rose & Part­ners is delight­ed to spon­sor Open Farm Sun­day, sup­port­ing this show­case day for British farm­ing. It is a great day out and a fan­tas­tic oppor­tu­ni­ty to see how your food is pro­duced and how farm­ers take care of the coun­try­side. At Wait­rose & Part­ners we are pas­sion­ate about sell­ing great tast­ing British food and we’re real­ly excit­ed that many of the bril­liant farm­ers and grow­ers who sup­ply us will be open­ing their farms this year.