About SAOS

At SAOS, we work with food and farming businesses to make them more profitable, competitive, and sustainable.

SAOS was established in 1905 as a Society to further co-operation in Scottish agriculture (the Scottish Agricultural Organisation Society). Co-ops and co-operative values remain at our core, and all of SAOS’s varied workstreams are centred around enabling and facilitating those involved to work together more effectively for mutual benefit.

Over the years, the SAOS team has identified many areas where a more collaborative approach and getting the right people together are the key to moving forward, whether that be with co-ops, businesses, supply chains, or the whole food and farming industry. This has led to the expansion of our business to explore and convert wider opportunities in every area of food and farming supply chains and rural development, through innovation, coupling new technology with data gathering in various ways, quality assurance, and in a more collaborative response to climate change and more sustainable farming and food production for the future.

Our team continues to grow and diversify as we again move into new areas to work on exciting developments with new partners. Once again, the SAOS annual report reflects on a year when we have been busier than ever, working with food and farming businesses, in a host of ways, to make them more profitable, competitive, and sustainable - working together to shape the future of farming and food.