Agriculture & Farming

Your biggest costs.
Finally working for you.

UK farms spend over £5bn a year on feed, fertiliser, insurance, and energy — almost all of it bought through a sales model that hasn't changed since the 1980s. Bundle IQ pools farm purchasing power to deliver prices that individual farms can never negotiate alone. Free to join. No obligation. No long-term commitment.

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£5.3bn
UK annual farm input spend on feed & fertiliser
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12–22%
Typical saving through collective buying vs single-farm procurement
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10 min
To join a pool and let IQ run the competitive process for you
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£0
Cost to buyers. Always. Suppliers compete for your business.
The problem

The model hasn't changed. The margins have.

Tight margins, rising input costs, and supermarket buyer power are squeezing farm profitability from every direction. The one area where farms consistently leave money on the table is purchasing — and it's the one area where collective action makes an immediate, measurable difference.

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The rep relationship premium
Long-standing supplier relationships are valuable — but loyalty is priced into every tonne. Farms that never competitively tender their feed or fertiliser spend are paying a relationship premium that compounds year on year. The rep keeps visiting. The overpayment keeps accumulating.
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The friction of shopping around
Getting three competitive quotes on 500 tonnes of compound feed takes a week of back-and-forth, specification writing, and supplier management that most farm operators simply don't have. So they don't bother. Bundle IQ removes that friction entirely — the process takes 10 minutes, IQ does the rest.
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No visibility of market rate
Most farmers have no reliable way to know whether the price they're paying is competitive. The IQ Benchmark gives you market rate data for your key input categories — not a vague estimate, a real number based on what comparable farms are actually paying right now.
Categories

Every major farm input. One platform.

Active buying pools and competitive tender processes across the categories that matter most to UK farm profitability.

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Compound Feed & Minerals
Beef, dairy, pig, poultry, sheep rations. Pool with farms of similar scale and requirement for genuine volume pricing.
Typical saving: 15–22%
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Fertiliser
Straight nitrogen, compound NPK, sulphur, trace elements. Annual and seasonal pool purchasing at contracted volumes.
Typical saving: 12–18%
Red Diesel & Farm Fuel
Aggregated fuel purchasing at fixed or indexed contract rates. Collective volume creates pricing that single-farm accounts cannot access.
Typical saving: 8–14%
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Farm Insurance
Farm combined, public liability, livestock, machinery all-risks. Competitive renewal process run by IQ — 6 months before your renewal date.
Typical saving: 12–20%
Farm Energy
Electricity and gas for farm buildings, grain drying, dairy equipment. Pool purchasing across farms with similar consumption profiles.
Typical saving: 10–16%
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Machinery & Plant
New and used machinery procurement, service contracts, parts supply. Collective volume and structured tendering gets results that ad hoc buying doesn't.
Typical saving: 8–15%
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Veterinary Supplies
Medicines, consumables, equipment. Aggregated purchasing from licensed veterinary wholesalers at contracted rates.
Typical saving: 10–18%
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Professional Services
Farm accountancy, tax planning, legal, planning consultancy. Competitive tendering for the services every farm needs but rarely puts out to market.
Typical saving: 15–25%
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Packaging & Consumables
Baler twine, wrap, bags, PPE, sundries. Low-value, high-frequency spend that rewards aggregation and annual contracting.
Typical saving: 12–20%
Live buying pools

Six pools. Open now. Free to join.

Each pool has a buying window, a target volume, and a live count of farms already registered. Join before the window closes to be included in the season tender.

🌾 23 farms joined
Compound Feed
Dairy & beef rations · minerals · calf starters
£1.84M pipeline spend Closes 31 Jul
🧪 18 farms joined
Fertiliser
N, P, K, sulphur · autumn & spring application
£2.1M pipeline spend Closes 31 Aug
🛡️ 31 farms joined
Farm Insurance
Combined · public liability · livestock · machinery
£520k pipeline spend Rolling monthly
27 farms joined
Red Diesel & Fuel
Red diesel · heating oil · AdBlue · quarterly pools
£680k pipeline spend Next: 30 Jun
19 farms joined
Farm Energy
Electricity & gas · grain drying · dairy equipment
£890k pipeline spend Closes 31 Aug
🌿 14 farms joined
Agrochemicals
Herbicides · fungicides · insecticides · spring season
£740k pipeline spend Closes 15 Dec
Farm counts and pipeline spend figures reflect expressions of interest registered with Bundle IQ. Figures are updated weekly. Individual farms join pools without joint liability — each farm contracts separately at the pool price.
How it works

Four steps. Ten minutes of your time.

IQ runs the entire procurement process. You describe your requirement, join the pool, and receive a competitive price. No tendering experience required.

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Tell IQ what you need
Describe your requirement — annual feed tonnage, fertiliser specification, insurance renewal date, fuel consumption. 10 minutes. Plain English.
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Join the pool
IQ matches you with other farms with similar requirements. Combined volume creates the buying power that individual farms can't achieve alone.
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IQ runs the competition
Qualified suppliers compete for the pool's business. IQ evaluates responses, scores on price and capability, and presents the recommendation.
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You decide
Switch or stay — the choice is always yours. No pressure, no obligation. But now you know exactly where the market is, and what your loyalty has been costing.
"A 300-cow dairy operation spending £160,000 a year on compound feed, buying 18% above the market rate available through collective procurement, is writing a £28,800 cheque every year for the privilege of not shopping around."
Bundle IQ Research · Agricultural Procurement Analysis 2026
Compliance & risk
Cross-compliance, SFI, and input supply chain risk

UK farms operate under a complex web of regulatory obligations — cross-compliance requirements, Sustainable Farming Incentive conditions, nitrate vulnerable zone restrictions, and environmental permitting. Input supplier failures — a feed merchant entering administration at the wrong moment, an agrochemical supplier with distribution problems — create operational risk that proper procurement can mitigate. Bundle IQ specifies supply chain resilience requirements and verifies supplier financial health as standard.

Read: The five costs of bad procurement that never appear on the invoice →
Every IQ tender includes
✓ Compliance requirements as prerequisites
✓ Supplier financial health check
✓ Certificate currency verification
✓ Full audit trail — brief to payment
✓ IQ Protection escrow
Also read: Your procurement team is managing 60% of your spend →

Ready to see what the market will offer?

Join a buying pool or submit a requirement. Free for farms. IQ runs the process. You make the call.