From 1896 to today, a 120-year history

who we are

The Consorzio Agrario di Cremona is a key point of reference for the agri-food sector both locally and nationally: alongside farms contributing to the improvement, growth and innovation of production to increase competitiveness, quality and safety.

The registered office as well as the main production centre are located in Cremona. In the province of Cremona, but also in those of Brescia, Bergamo, Lodi, Mantua, Milan and Verona, are logistic hubs, branches, agencies and drying centres. Also branched out in Emilia Romagna is a large sales network with dozens of expert and fully-trained agents.

The Consorzio Agrario di Cremona works to ensure a wide range of cutting-edge solutions to shareholders and customers, thanks also to its staff, who are competent and prompt in assisting farmers and capable of responding to the needs of a constantly evolving market. From the production and marketing of animal feed products to the management of the livestock cycle, from food processing to consultancy for the development of the crop cycle, to cultivation contracts, from the supply of agricultural machinery and mechanical assistance to the distribution of fuel lubricants, from financial advice to insurance. Quality and guarantee of excellent products and services are the key features that distinguish the work of the Consorzio Agrario di Cremona to promote and enhance the territory and the agricultural activities that take place in it every day.

Our history

To talk about what the Consorzio Agrario di Cremona is today we need to start from its birth: on 31 October 1896, a group of 47 Cremonese farmers, led by Professor Antonio Sansone, holder of the Itinerant Chair of Agriculture, scholar of agricultural problems and promulgator of more extensive forms of cooperation, he established the “Consumer Cooperative Society among the Farmers of the Province of Cremona” with the aim of improving agriculture and bringing well-being to the social classes, by purchasing and distributing all goods, products and required tools to members, and to act as an intermediary for agricultural sales and for members.

From here on, the Consorzio Agrario di Cremona began to represent the cornerstone for the agricultural world of the territory, making its influence felt as a moderator of prices, fighting speculation, facilitating the distribution, collection and sale of goods as well as promoting contact between farmers.

Among the first key activities of the Consortium are the supply of fertilisers, as well as the promotion and dissemination of fertilisation techniques; training in the correct use of seeds, for which the first selection systems have been launched with multiplication contracts with members; the trend towards research that leads the company to build its first analysis laboratory, at a time when entire provinces had no access to one. Although all these activities played a role of primary importance, the most fortunate intuitions of the Agricultural Consortium concerned the field of animal husbandry.

Starting in the 1920s, it was decided to concentrate the greatest financial and research efforts in the production and sale of animal feed. Thus, in 1928 the Agricultural Consortium of Cremona, the first in Italy, produced a feed on an industrial basis intended mainly for dairy cows, calling it “Lactogen” and patenting its name. A brand was born that is synonymous with feed and is known and appreciated across the national territory and beyond. The feed mill boasts a consolidated tradition of certification of products and production processes that began in September 1996 with the achievement, first among the feed mills in Italy, of the ISO 9002 certification.

Openness towards new technologies and their constant and immediate application in the agro-zootechnical sector has brought about the extraordinary expansion of the Consortium. In the 1980s a new industrial centre was built in an area of 72,000 square meters facing the navigable canal of Cremona, equipped with the latest equipment and built according to the most innovative criteria. The Consortium’s policy on investment has never changed. In recent years, several acquisitions have allowed the Agricultural Consortium of Cremona, which in 2021 celebrates 125 years of activity, to expand its facilities with new, more modern logistics centres; with branches, agencies, agricultural machinery dealerships and state-of-the-art workshops, but also with new drying centres for cereals and alfalfa, both in the province of Cremona and in the neighbouring provinces of Lombardy, with a site also in Isola Rizza, in the province of Verona. Research for the continuous development of new products and services, both in the animal husbandry and feed areas, and in the agronomic and mechanisation sector, has also never stopped: innovation has always been a hallmark of the Consortium.

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