August 2024

Extending our sustainable agriculture programme with Farmacy

Part of the Hutchinson’s Group, Farmacy’s independent agronomy and farm management expertise will ensure KP Snacks’ partner farmers have access to the best and most up-to-date knowledge on adopting and embedding regenerative farming practices.  

Sustainable agriculture is a key component of KP Snacks’ People & Planet commitments to deliver 30% reduction in Scope 3 emissions by 2032. This target is SBTi-approved and will also serve to secure food production in the long term. By working with Farmacy agronomists, KP Snacks is ensuring that their farmers are getting the best advice to improve soil health, biodiversity, sustainability and regenerative techniques using the latest technology.  

KP Snacks has long understood the value of sustainable farming and has worked closely with potato farmers for a number of years to apply sustainable farming principles, encouraging its potato farmers to implement regenerative practices, including: 

1. Keeping soil covered  
2. Maintaining living roots all year round 
3. Integrating livestock wherever possible  
4. Maximising crop diversity  
5. Minimising soil disturbance  

Crucially, KP Snacks underpins this approach by applying context, assessing and supporting each farm’s specific needs and challenges, taking a field-by-field approach for an optimised outcome and working closely with Farmacy agronomists who have the knowledge and experience to help KP Snacks achieve these goals.  

John Glazebrook-Milner, Sustainable Agriculture Manager at Intersnack, comments: “We are committed to building responsible, resilient supply chains for generations to come. In collaboration with our farmers and partners, we are passionate about sustainable agriculture and regenerative principles. We recognise some elements are not new, but we must get back to some of those key practices, while working together to combine new and innovative ideas and solutions. With the collective experience of KP Snacks and our farmers, in combination with our new partnership with Farmacy, we are confident that this programme will make a significant, long-lasting, and positive impact on our farms and the environment.”  

Mike Young, Chairman of Farmacy Plc. adds: “KP Snacks have recognised the need to help their growers with the transition to more regenerative practices, and with Farmacy’s knowledge of agronomy, environmental, soil health and farm business management it makes a very strong partnership. This partnership supports their growers in understanding and  implementing key practices on farm that will have a positive impact right across the food chain as well as enhancing their individual farm businesses.”  

KP Snacks is committed to driving lasting, sustainable improvements to agricultural practices, for the benefit of its farmers, and the planet, through a soil-up approach. Through an ongoing collaboration with Farmacy and its potato farmers, we continually assess ways to support more resilient food production, based on a climate, legislative and economic approach that aims to restore ecological balance and enhance the natural resilience of agricultural systems.