Managing Director & Nuffield Scholar
P.X. Farms Ltd.
Cambridge, United Kingdom
Keynote Session - Running an Agribusiness in the UK
Thursday, January 26 9:00am - 10:00am Plenary Room
Nuffield Studies: Arable Farming - Where Next?
Thursday, January 26 3:30pm - 4:30pm Room 4
Bio
James S. Peck owns and manages P.X. Farms Ltd (www.pxfarms.com) based at Scotland Farm, Dry Drayton, Cambridge in the heart of the England’s wheat growing area. Since 2003 when PX Farms Ltd was established it has grown over the last 8 years by 380%. The Agri Business encompasses 5,750 acres contract farmed and custom work over fourteen farms. A 9 artic lorry fleet specialising in combinable crops haulage and a contract grain storage totalling 46,500 tonne in a newly-constructed stores.
James was awarded one of the 21 UK Nuffield Farming Scholarship in 2010 to investigate “Arable farming, where next?” and sponsored through the John Oldacre Foundation, his target was to study and research global arable farming practices to provide a report which will benefit the whole UK farming community.
James takes an active interest in farming and the environment and currently serves as Chairman of Cambridgeshire and Bedfordshire Country Land and Business Association (CLA) and won the Farmers Weekly ‘Young Farmer of the Year Award’ in 2006. In July the first UK solar panel tracker array was constructed at the family farm producing 50 KW/hr.
Session Summary
Keynote Session - Running an Agribusiness in the UK
Increased demand for food production and climate changes are being experienced globally and in the UK James S Peck has had to address the modifications required to his agribusiness whilst continuing to expand and maintain profitability. Over the past 8 years since founding PX Farms Limited from the foundation of his family farm, many challenges have been encountered and overcome but not without lessons learned. Adapt, innovate and overcome.
Nuffield Studies: Arable Farming - Where Next?
Looking into the future for himself and his business, James S Peck could not see a clear roadmap to follow for the next 10 years. A Nuffield Scholarship provided him with a unique opportunity to travel the globe investigating hurdles that had been experienced in the UK, and looking at how other agribusinesses and farm machinery manufacturers have overcome similar problems. In his final report Arable Farming Where Next, James provides insight to his findings and how they can be put into practice by others.
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