It's all change for 2012 with election results announced at the Hampshire NFU AGM in Winchester this week.
Current Hampshire NFU chairman Julian Lewis, from Bentworth, near Alton, completes his two year term and steps down after the national NFU AGM in February. Julian is well known to many for his work promoting farming at public facing events and he is a regular guest on BBC Radio Solent's Good Life show on Sundays. Happily, Mr Lewis (pictured below) won't be leaving the officeholder fold. He has been elected as Hampshire NFU's council delegate, replacing outgoing Hampshire council delegate James Crosbie Dawson of Overton.
The incoming chairman of Hampshire NFU is arable farmer Julian Gibbons of Lower Wield, near Alresford. Julian Gibbons is well known as a previous board member of HGCA (1997/2002). He has also previously chaired the Basingstoke/north Hampshire NFU branch, serving for ten years on the NFU's former national cereals committee and he also sat on its alternative crop uses group.
Arable and cattle farmer Neil Cutler OBE, a tenant farmer from Southwick, near Fareham has been elected deputy chairman of Hampshire NFU. Neil is distinguished for his work on animal health and welfare. He was an active member of the Defra advisory group that helped to develop Defra's animal health and welfare strategy. Neil, pictured below, is a board member of DairyCo, a division of the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board.
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