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With growers feeling the financial pressure after a disastrous autumn, farm business consultants warned visitors at LAMMA of the importance of controlling costs this year. CPM gathered an insight into the latest outlook. As always, it’s dangerous to over-react on the basis of one season. By Charlotte Cunningham Having come through such a difficult season and not yet in the clear, it was somewhat awkward being surrounded by millions of pounds worth of kit, fresh off the production line, at this year’s LAMMA show. Perhaps the elephant in the room was one single question: Are growers going to have the cash to splash out on new kit? But away from the glitz and glam of said shiny kit, farm business consultants, Andersons, were grabbing the bull by the horns to discuss exactly what the impact of this season could be on growers and how, in fact, there may be other issues to look at. Andersons have been using their Loam Farm Model since 1991 to track the fortunes of British combinable cropping farms. It comprises 600ha in a standard rotation of milling wheat, oilseed rape, feed wheat and spring beans and is based on real-life data. “British…
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