Red diesel, heating oil, and agricultural fuel for UK farms. Collective purchasing creates contracted volume rates that individual farm accounts cannot access. No storage infrastructure required — your existing delivery arrangements continue at better prices.
Red diesel is a continuous, unavoidable cost for every farming operation. It is bought on account from a local distributor, invoiced monthly, and paid without question because the farm cannot function without it. The price is index-linked and adjusted periodically — usually upward — with little transparency about the margin the distributor is applying on top of the underlying commodity price.
Farms buying fuel through contracted collective purchasing arrangements consistently achieve pence-per-litre advantages of 3–6p over individually negotiated accounts — on 20,000 litres of red diesel annually, that is £600–£1,200 per year. Modest individually; material across a pool and compounding over time.
Red diesel (gas oil) for tractors, machinery, and static engines; heating oil (kerosene) for farm buildings and cottages; AdBlue for Stage V compliant machinery; and petrol where required. Pool purchasing is structured as quarterly contracted volumes — you estimate your quarterly requirement, the pool aggregates, and IQ tenders to contracted fuel distributors.