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Farmcare
Farmcare Trading Limited is the largest lowland farming organisation in the United Kingdom.〔Registered under the Industrial and Provident Societies Act 1965, No. 28966R〕 It traded as The Co-operative Farms while a subsidiary of The Co-operative Group until it was sold to the Wellcome Trust in 2014.
==History==
The first farm was acquired at Roden, Shropshire in 1896 in order to supply potatoes to local societies' stores.〔(The foundations ) The Co-operative Farms (retrieved 21 August 2009)〕 By 1918, the then Co-operative Wholesale Society already farmed a total of 32,648 acres (13,212 ha) across England.〔(The war years ) The Co-operative Farms (retrieved 21 August 2009)〕
Following the merger of CWS and Co-operative Retail Services in 2001, CWS Agriculture became Farmcare Limited.〔(Mutuals Public Register ) Financial Services Authority (retrieved 21 August 2009)〕 It was rebranded as The Co-operative Farms in 2007.
On 4 August 2014, the business was sold to the Wellcome Trust for £249 million, to reduce The Co-operative Group's debt following its financial crisis in 2013.〔(Wellcome Trust acquires the Co-operative Group's farms business for £249 million )〕 At the time of the sale, The Co-operative Farms owned of land organised as 15 farms, and more than 100 residential and 27 commercial properties.
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