Anna Bowen

Farm Business Consultant

Anna is a Senior Farm Business Consultant at The Andersons Centre, specialising in dairy consultancy and nutrient management planning. Her work encompasses financial, strategic, and technical advice for dairy farmers; succession planning and people management, benchmarking; facilitating a number of dairy discussion groups across England and Wales, and working alongside the research team on dairy projects. Anna is FACTS qualified. Prior to Andersons Anna spent ten years working for a dairy consultancy in West Wales and read BSc (Hons) International Equine and Agricultural Management and MSc Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security at the Royal Agricultural College. Anna manages a spring block calving dairy farm through a contract farming agreement and grew up on a dairy farm in West Wales. She sits on the AHDB Dairy Sector Council as a farmer representative and from 2023 to 2025 was a Trustee of the Nuffield Farming Scholarships Trust.

Qualifications & Experience

February 2022 to Present Day – Farm Business Consultant at The Andersons Centre
Previously worked as a farm business consultant in West Wales
Contract farms a 300- cow spring block calving herd in Ceredigion
FACTS qualified
RoMS accredited mobility scorer
Approved Mastitis Control Plan and QuarterPro deliverer
2021 Nuffield Scholar- “Can the UK improve the ethics of its dairy calf management whilst retaining profitability?”
2019 Entrepreneurs in Dairying course
2017 Richard John Memorial Trust Scholarship, studied the sustainability of the Australian dairy industry
2016 MSc Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security (Royal Agricultural College)
2014 BSc (Hons) International Equine and Agricultural Management (Royal Agricultural College)
Fluent Welsh speaker