Kerry Jerman Farm Business Consultant Kerry has over 13 years of experience as a Farm Business Consultant for The Andersons Centre, with particular expertise in the beef and sheep sector, and Welsh Farming Policy. She specialises in strategic, financial and technical advice within her consultancy work with a wide variation of clients including small family farms as well as livestock enterprises on larger estates. This work is a mix of one-off jobs aswell as ongoing management work. She facilitates a number of Farming Connect funded discussion groups and has also done a wide range of work with benchmarking, particularly within the Welsh Beef and Sheep Industry. Outside of farm consultancy, she runs a small upland flock of 200 ewes and is also heavily involved in her family farm, comprising of 1,300 breeding ewes and 70 suckler cows. Qualifications & Experience December 2014 – BIAC Rural and Agricultural Consultants Foundation Course August 2013 to Present Day – Farm Business Consultant at The Andersons Centre April 2013 – July 2013 - Lambing assistant and sheep worker for a local sheep and beef farmer July 2012 – April 2013 - Assistant Dairy Herdsman on 450 cow herd near Hamilton, New Zealand 2009 - 2012 – Aberystwyth University. 2:1 BSc Hons Agriculture with Business Studies. The course focused on the UK agricultural industry with business principles built in 2006 to Present– Working in the family farming business. The farm is predominantly sheep along with a small suckler herd which sells offspring as forward stores Areas of Expertise Farm Consultancy Farming Connect (FC) accredited
