HGCA appoints new Regional Manager for Scotland
Gavin Dick, formerly of SRUC, will be based at the existing Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) offices at the Rural Centre in Ingliston, Edinburgh. He will take up the role in April. His responsibilities will include recruiting and project managing two new HGCA monitor farms – one alongside AHDB potato division PCL – as […]
DairyCo welcomes three new board members
Dairy farmers Janette Prince, David Cotton and Tim Gue will join Chairman Tim Bennett and the eight existing board members to develop strategies that determine the direction of the AHDB’s milk division and provide a clear vision for all DairyCo activities that benefit GB dairy farmers. Mr Bennett said: “I’m pleased to welcome Janette, David […]
FUW welcomes merger of new Minister’s roles
The Farmers’ Union of Wales today congratulated Alun Davies on his appointment as Welsh Government natural resources and food minister and welcomed the merger of his previous responsibilities for agriculture, fisheries and food with those of the former environment minister under a single portfolio. “We have had major concerns regarding the splitting of the previous […]
Ian Macalpine elected new RABDF chairman
Ian Macalpine is the newly elected chairman of the Royal Association of British Dairy Farmers. He succeeds David Cotton who has completed a three year term of office. Ian has been dairy farming for over 30 years, previously with Holstein Friesians, and now in partnership with his wife, Sally managing a 250 cow pedigree Jersey […]
New man in Scotland for Landini and McCormick tractors
A Scottish farmer’s son whose career has given him years’ of experience in retail farm machinery sales is now finding out what life on the other side of the fence is like as the new area sales manager in Scotland for tractor distributor AgriArgo UK. Robert ‘Bob’ Bain joined the Landini and McCormick tractor distributor […]
New UK Sales Director for Alltech UK
Alltech, one of the UK’s leading animal health and nutrition companies has appointed Graeme Smith as UK Sales Director. “It’s an exciting time to be involved in animal nutrition”, comments Graeme, “our global research on Programmed Nutrition, Algae and Nutrigenomics has the capability of creating huge advancements in efficiency of production across all species, allowing […]
Produce World appoints New Product Development Manager
Dara O’Doherty joined Produce World in February and is based at the company’s Butterwick site near Boston. Dara has considerable industry experience and her previous role was as a Vegetable Agronomist at Agrovista UK. Prior to this Dara held positions at Syngenta Crop Protection and Allium & Brassica Agronomy. In her new role Dara will […]
NSA Northern Region welcomes a new Chairman and recognises a stalwart of the industry
The NSA Northern Region AGM on Wednesday evening (13th February) saw Geoff Lawn complete his two years as regional Chairman and hand over the reins to Adam Watson of Brampton, Northumberland. Mr Watson, a keen supporter of sheep genetics and the next generation of producers, is also the Chairman of NSA North Sheep 2013, to […]
NFU President secures role as EU Food Chain chairman
Farmers and co-operatives from across the EU have endorsed NFU President Peter Kendall for a further two year term as Chairman of the Copa-Cogeca Food Chain Working Party to represent all EU farming unions. Mr Kendall, continuing in the role he started in 2010, said he was ready to push forward with the significant progress […]
