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How will agriculture fare in the current retail environment?

Beth Hart Head of Technical, Fresh Foods

11th November 2015

Vision To be an industry leading agriculture team at the heart of Sainsbury’s business Our St Strat ategy egy To deliver our values whilst unlocking king value lue, su sustaining ning comp mpetitive itive adv dvant antage age and prot

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ecting brand. and. To achieve this through working collabor aborat atively ively with our British farmers, growers, suppliers and experts to drive ive excell cellenc ence in agricultural production Focus us area eas Quality, , Efficiency, , Safety, Security of Supply, , 2020

Sainsbury’s Agriculture Strategy

Ou Our Valu lues es

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Develop elopme ment nt grou

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ps under der-pinned pinned and d suppor ported ed by by steering ering groups

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Sainsbury’s Farm Performance Performa

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nce Init itiat iative ive: industry

industry leading environmental and environmental and farm performance programme

Agricultu iculture e and d Horticult icultur ure e Horti ticult culture ure Appr pren entices iceships hips: Agricultu iculture e R&D St Strat ategy egy: Sainsbury’s Farming Conference ference: a celebration of our

• f our agriculture activity with our
• ur farmers, growers and producers

Deliver ivering: ing: Resilience, ence, Compe petit itive ive Advant dvantage age through

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ation

• n and Remov
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ng Barrier er Secur urin ing g British ish through…………….

Sainsbury’s Development Groups

2,300 producers Working together since 2007

Beef UK Lamb Dairy & Cheese Chicken Egg Pork Wheat Veal Ducks Sainsbury’s Development Group Farms

Going forward:

Dynamic Marketplace New Government moving at pace Sainsbury’s Approach

Many moving parts within Government

BIS Productivity Plans for Economic Growth Defra 25yr Food and Farming Plan Department

• f Health

Obesity challenges?

What is it government must do to enable business to do what business is good at? Whilst delivering the new Sustainable Development Goals

Chang anging ing Marke ketplace tplace

An End to End Approach

COST

EFFICIENCIES VALUE CREATION

COST

SAVINGS

CYCLICAL vs. STRUCTURAL Progress going forward will rely on

• ur ability to join up the end to end

value chain to create truly sustainable business models

Reducing costs through improved cattle health and welfare

Res esil ilience ience Foc

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us: Drivin ving g Con

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inual Bus usiness ness Impr provemen vement t in n Dai airy

Benchmar hmarking ng of ke key factors s that at drive ve efficiency iency Launc nch h of BV BVD Contr ntrol

• l Plan

n to improve

• ve resili

lienc nce

• f herd immunity

unity Champ mpion ion Farm Farmer ers s for knowledg

• wledge

transf ansfer Teaching ing Busines iness s Skills lls Sharing aring Best Practi ctice ce Responsibl

• nsible

e Use of Anti tibiot biotics cs

Resi silien lience ce and Risk sk Managem gement ent

Sainsbury’s Biodiversity Policy

• Delivering to and working with

farmers and growers within the CAP Reform

• Supported by Natural England
• Driving environmental resilience
• Embracing CAP
• Allowing farms to remain

functional, productive and profitable

• Staying ahead of the game

Customer er Focused: sed: Gre reat t tasti ting g chicken ken from m th the farm rm to th the customers s home

Working king toge gethe ther, , Farm m to Fork

Res esilie ilience nce focu cus: s: Agr gric icul ultur ture e da data

>26,000 data points: 7 years of data, 11 development groups 2300 farms 3 data types: Carbon, COP, Health and Welfare 3 independent consultants One of UK’s largest real farm datasets

Usi sing ng da data a to dr drive change ange th through

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informat

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ion: Quality ty and d efficiency ciency

Vis isio ion

It t will:

• 1. Delive

ver r competiti titive ve advant ntage ge

• 2. Drive

e effici cient nt, , cost effecti tive ve producti tion n of raw materi rial products ts

• 3. Drive

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erial al product ct

The Sainsbury’s agriculture data strategy will be integral to the agriculture, commercial, and technical business functions to deliver competitive advantage by working with supply chain partners through an evidence based platform to improve product quality, generate cost efficiencies and ultimately deliver secure, long term relationships and supply from the field

Making ing it H t Happen: en: Skills ls fit t for r th the futu ture re of farm rming ing

Embr bracing acing our r pe people ple:

Skills lls and d Scholar lars

Sainsbury’s Apprenticeship Scheme Sainsbury’s Agriculture Graduat ate e Scheme Sainsbury’s Scholarship

Driv iving ing ex exce cell llen ence ce

Why

Appre renti nticeship eship focus: s: why hy and how

Responding to identified needs of Sainsbury’s Farmers and Growers Recognition that partnership and a collaborative approach can deliver better

• utcomes for everyone

Opportunity to deliver a higher quality apprenticeship due to the employers and partners involved Number of learners; Growth plan

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Steering group development; Employer led Marketing plan; To recruit the best employers and apprentices Developm

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ent t of

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A. Levels B. Types of apprenticeship C. External funding D. Quality of delivery

2 3 4

How

Making ing it H t Happen: en: Agri ricultu lture re R&D

Sainsbury’s Agricultu iculture e R&D R&D

11 Academic partnerships Agri-Tech activity

+£10m investment

27 produce/ arable/ horticulture projects 23 livestock/ aquaculture projects Identifying challenges with

• ur farmers,

quantifying R&D need with data Commercially viable solutions, supported by appropriate exploitation plan to development groups, to industry

Vision To be an industry leading agriculture team at the heart of Sainsbury’s business Our St Strat ategy egy To deliver our values whilst unlocking king value lue, su sustaining ning comp mpetitive itive adv dvant antage age and prot

• tecting

ecting brand. and. To achieve this through working collabor aborat atively ively with our British farmers, growers, suppliers and experts to drive ive excell cellenc ence in agricultural production Focus us area eas Quality, , Efficiency, , Safety, Security of Supply, , 2020

Sainsbury’s Agriculture Strategy