Comment – Farm Profitability and FOMO 

This week, every year, I suffer from FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out). It’s the Oxford Farming Conference, and I am trudging through the frozen wastes of the North feeding sheep and cattle, not in my best tweed three-piece suit on the High St in Oxford. 

In farming, and the machinery supply chain by default, the global picture influences the national picture. Which in turn affects our world. For that reason I always enjoy Oxford. 

It’s the start of the new year, and when better to take stock and consider which way ‘the job’ is going? 

I do have my spies in the room, and this year’s conference kicked off with a Farmers Weekly Question Time session looking at Farming Profit and Policy. I have my suspicions that despite what our friends in Westminster tell us, they are not as omnipotent as they would have us believe.  

Recognising that the political bubble has limited impact on the weather, and global wheat stocks, is the first step to sanity I reckon. 

 I am however looking forward to a day in Birmingham on Wednesday at LAMMA, see you there! 

Have a good week. 

Andy