Simpsons Malt wins the FSA’s Growing A Better Planet Award 2024
8th November 2024
Overview
Celebrating leadership, innovation and collaboration in efforts to continuously improve on-farm sustainability
SAI Platform is delighted to announce that Simpsons Malt Ltd, a UK-based, family-owned malting and agricultural merchanting company, has been awarded the prestigious 2024 FSA Growing a Better Planet Award. Recognised for its leadership in promoting sustainability and resilience across supply chains, Simpsons Malt works closely with over 750 cereal producers throughout the UK, leveraging the FSA to drive sustainable farming practices and innovative on-farm technologies.
Simpsons Malt’s award submission underscores the vital role of collaboration in advancing sustainability within agricultural supply chains. Each of their Farm Management Groups have achieved over 90% FSA Gold Performance level for barley production, and they are now partnering with their growers to replicate this success in wheat production.
In response to winning the award, Ben Gothorp, Sustainability Manager at Simpsons Malt, said, “We are absolutely delighted to have won the FSA Growing A Better Planet Award, highlighting our commitment to driving sustainability throughout the malting barley and distilling wheat supply chains which, in turn, helps us—and our distilling partners—tackle our Scope 3 emissions.”
“One of our overarching company objectives is to achieve carbon-neutral malting barley and distilling wheat production by 2030, and we’re pleased that this global award recognises the positive steps we are making towards this.”
Ben Gothorp, Sustainability Manager, Simpsons Malt Ltd.
This year’s judging panel included Andrew Utterback, Director for Global Sustainable Sourcing at Ingredion, Rozanne Davis, ERBS Director at SAI Platform, and Tione Malizani, Extension Officer at Phata Sugarcane Outgrowers, the 2023 award recipients. Each entry was evaluated based on its objectives, implementation strategies, collaboration efforts, and the impact they have had on social, environmental, and business performance.
“I loved seeing how [Simpsons Malt] are utilising the FSA to quickly gauge how their farmers are performing but more importantly they are using the continuous improvement plan as a lever to work towards positive, measurable environmental impact.”
Andrew Utterback, Director for Global Sustainable Sourcing, Ingredion.
Mane Kancor earned the runner up spot in this year’s awards for their impactful initiative supporting small-scale mint producers in India. By helping these farmers adopt practices that enhance both profitability and environmental sustainability, Mane Kancor is driving meaningful change at the grassroots level.
SAI Platform congratulates Simpsons Malt, Mane Kancor and all entrants in this year’s FSA Growing a Better Planet Award for their commitment to advancing sustainable agriculture. The collaborative efforts of these organisations are driving positive change within the industry and helping to build a more sustainable future.
About Simpsons Malt Ltd
Founded in 1862, Simpsons Malt Limited is an independent, fifth-generation, family-owned business and Certified B Corporation comprising a malting division (Simpsons Malt) and an agricultural merchanting division (McCreath Simpson & Prentice).
Simpsons Malt is one of the largest independent, family-owned malting companies in the world with the capacity to produce around 315,000 tonnes of malt per year at its two malting sites. The company’s passion is a focus on making malts with taste, flavour and consistently high quality with the world’s best brewers and distillers in mind, helping them to craft the finest beers and whiskies.
McCreath Simpson & Prentice (MSP) is one of the UK’s leading agricultural merchants. Founded in 1980, MSP supplies farmers from the Highlands of Scotland to North Yorkshire with a range of farm inputs, including cereal seed, livestock feed, grass and small seeds, agrochemicals and fertiliser.
