Andrew Spinks

Andrew Spinks - Agricultural Business Consultant, Associate, BSc (Hons)

Norwich

Andrew Spinks started working at Brown&Co Norwich in 2018. Andrew enjoys involvement with large vegetable businesses, as well as with family farms. After spending several years’ operating systems to irrigate potatoes. Andrew has developed a niche in grant applications, project work, and Environment Agency applications in this area. Andrew also enjoys completing grant applications for specialist machinery. Having been involved with a Producer Organisation (PO) from early on in his time with Brown&Co, he has developed this as a specialism and taken on more PO clients. Andrew enjoys ongoing work for a food manufacturing business who want to better understand their supply chain. Clients also look to Andrew to help with Environmental Schemes. He has farms where he has ongoing involvement with their Sustainable Farming Incentive Schemes and has also put together a large English Woodland Creation Offer application. Through the Defra Future Farm Resilience Scheme, Andrew has completed Carbon Footprint calculations for farming businesses.

Before Brown&Co he worked on farms in technical and management roles, this developed experience of potatoes, seed potatoes, combinable crops, sugar beet and specialist crops such as horseradish. In this time, he also started a herd of suckler cows. Andrew is a graduate of the University of Nottingham; he has a BSc (Hons) in Agriculture. He has a BASIS Certificate in Crop Protection. Andrew is a director of a family engineering business, trustee of the Royal Norfolk Agricultural Association (RNAA), and is an active partner in his family’s cattle breeding business.

In 2024, Andrew won the contracts to deliver four Local Resource Option (LRO) Screening studies for the Environment Agency. These contracts involved co-ordination of groups of farmers with the aim of selecting and studying three options for improving on farm water resources. The LRO protocol is an area of work he hopes to develop.