OUR COLLECTIVE ROLE TO SUPPLY AND PROVIDE FOOD AND NUTRITION IN ALL ITS FORMS HAS NEVER BEEN MORE IMPORTANT.
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WHAT WOULD IT ALL MEAN? A bumper crop in 2019 raised morale considerably and as the decade drew to a close a degree of genuine optimism had re-emerged. The country even made up its mind finally to give Boris Johnson and the Conservatives a thumping majority to “get Brexit done”, albeit nobody, including Boris, I suspect knows exactly what that will look like.
Then as I mentioned earlier, came the rain, and it rained and it rained and it rained.
The rain passed as it invariably does to be replaced by something far more sinister. The emergence from Wuhan, the Capital of Central China in Hubei province, of the coronavirus, or Covid-19 as the virus has become known. Covid-19 a global killer that is now a global pandemic not seen since the Spanish Flu of 1918. We find ourselves and the global economy shutdown. We are living at this very moment with the most extraordinary restrictions imposed on every one of our lives. The removal of free movement, civil liberties arrested and future aspirations mostly in tatters.
WHERE DOES THIS LEAVE US ALL? First and foremost, ensuring the health and welfare of our families, colleagues, friends and members of our community. The marvellous miraculous NHS are at the frontline risking everything to administer life-saving care to all, from the poorest to the Prime Minister himself. True British grit a cause for optimism as always.
Amid this chaos we in the farming and agriculture community are now vital to ensuring the defeat of the Covid-19 outbreak. Our collective role to supply and provide food and nutrition in all its forms has never been more important. ADM globally and in the UK is playing its part processing and delivering nutrition to a world that always needs food.
ADM in the UK is of unparalleled strength in this sector. With 10 processing plants, seven flour mills, 19 port operations and over five million tons of crops, traded or processed, ADM is central to the UK agricultural economy. As we work to support the current challenge our flour mills are producing at levels rarely seen, our crush is equally striving to meet this unprecedented requirement.
The port operations are brimming with animal feedstuffs to supply your animals that must be fed whatever is going on around them. Even our financial services group is working tirelessly to support our farmers and other clients as markets gyrate wildly.
ADM Agriculture and the ADM companies operate in the most certain of industries whatever the economic or social climate. As our customers, colleagues and friends you can be assured that ADM Agriculture is a strong partner for you at a time like this and indeed in times of normality too.
A delicious breakfast at a windswept Huntingdon race course seems a world away. However, with your support, by continuing to work together I know that we can all help to defeat the virus.
On behalf of ADM in the UK I look forward to a brighter and healthier future for us all.
Fabian Somerville-Cotton E:
customer.services@
admisi.com T: +44 20 7716 8000
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