Recent years have seen a gradual increase in specialization in activities in the organic market segment by fenaco. Its organic products range from milling grain via oilseeds through to all the important components in organic compound feeds production.

The market for organic foodstuffs is growing steadily in Switzerland. Most organic products on the domestic market bear the Bud label of the Swiss organic farming association Bio Suisse association. The guidelines issued by Bio Suisse on production, trade and processing differ in some ways from the slightly less restrictive organic cultivation rules laid down by Swiss legislation or the EU ordinance (e.g. total organic production).

Although domestic cultivation is promoted by associations, by the Swiss government and by companies active in the market, self-sufficiency in milling and feed grain as well as in oilseeds and feed proteins has remained at a very low level. In particular, for reasons of ecology and product safety, fenaco aims to obtain as many imports of raw materials recognized by Bio Suisse as possible from neighbouring countries.

Marketing domestic produce

In cooperation with allmost 40 organically-certified collection centres throughout Switzerland, fenaco GOF markets over one third of Swiss organic milling grain, as well as a considerable proportion of domestic feed grain. Aiming at cost leadership in domestic organic marketing, fenaco fosters marketing cooperation with high-performance Swiss processors. Producers benefit as a result from attractive payment prices.

Thanks to its own thriving organic compound feeds production, fenaco can handle substantial quantities of the by-products that result from organic milling grain and oilseed processing.

Focus on Europe for imports

fenaco GOF has reliable business relations with partners in neighbouring countries as well as Eastern Europe. In our working relations with producer organisations, collection points and agents we set great store by transparency, reliability and sustainability.

In the interests of providing Swiss processors with continuous, top quality, yet still competitive supplies, fenaco GOF opts for broad support of the procurement channels and origins per product segment. This enables fenaco to compensate for the annual fluctuations in supplies. Both contract production and price-setting models are increasingly gaining in importance to counteract the increase in price volatility. Our organic "philosophy"

• We seek out and maintain lasting and reliable relations with partners among both producers and customers
• We promote fairness in working with others and a high level of transparency within the value-added chain
• We treat the organic market with the same respect as the conventional market. We also give major consideration to the ideological concepts of organic agriculture.
• Top priority is given to high-level product quality and safety.
• We promote domestic cultivation and import with environmental aspects in mind.