New President for AEA
Joe Bell, Managing Director of Kverneland Group UK Ltd, has been elected as President of the Agricultural Engineers Association for 2013/14. He has been a member of the Farm Equipment Council for the last 4 years and Chairman for the last two, and a member of the AEA Board for 5 years contributing to the […]
Key Yara promotions benefit UK customers
Mark Tucker, formerly UK Head of Agronomy, now becomes Chief Agronomist for Northern Europe, responsible for company activities in the UK and The Republic of Ireland as well as Scandinavia, Russia and the Baltic Countries. Ian Matts, formerly Agronomic Coordinator for Yara UK will succeed Mark, becoming Company Agronomist for the UK and the Republic […]
New leadership at Potato Council
As Allan Stevenson steps down after five years as Chair of Potato Council and member of the AHDB Board, David Piccaver, a leafy salad producer from South Lincolnshire enthusiastically takes on this challenging and exciting role. “I am pleased to have been appointed chairman of Potato Council. I have been a potato grower for most […]
AHDB appoints four new HGCA Board members
Robert Lasseter, Paul Temple, George Lawrie and Charles Matts will take up their posts from 1 April 2013. They replace outgoing grower board members, Arthur Hill, Rad Thomas, Stewart Vernon and MAGB’s Colin West. Jonathan Tipples, HGCA chairman, said: “I am delighted to welcome Paul, Robert, George and Charles onto the Board and look forward […]
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 […]
