Jamie, who farms in Hertfordshire and Norfolk, is one half of Sandcross Farming LLP which produces milling and feed wheat, milling oats, feed and malting barley and peas.
He said: “I am really pleased and humbled to be elected chair of the NFU crops board. It’s a great team and a great board and I’m looking forward to working together over the next two years.
“As for immediate priorities, there is a lot of work do to on fairness and transparency in the supply chain and the sector needs to contribute across the membership to the upcoming review into farm assurance.
“I really want our members thoughts, feelings and opinions to be at the centre of what we do as a board going forward.”
“There is a lot of work do to on fairness and transparency in the supply chain and the sector needs to contribute across the membership to the upcoming review into farm assurance.”
NFU Combinable Crops Board chair Jamie Burrows
Ensuring members’ voices heard
James Mills, a farmer from near York, has been elected vice chair of the board.
James, who farms in a family partnership on a 200-hectare mixed farm, said: “I’m looking forward to working with the new chair and the board to ensure that members’ views are heard, while also tackling a number of key policy issues head on such as SFI, on farm profitability and fairness in the supply chain.
“It will also be vital that we have an open and honest discussion on the future of farm assurance in the combinable crop sector.”
