• National Farmers Union
  • - 29-07-2010
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Farming is going to be central to providing solutions to the big challenges of the future - at the NFU we are working to secure a key and profitable role for UK farmers.

Peter Kendall, NFU President
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Diaries wc July 26 - where your officeholders are going to be this week

Find out what Peter Kendall, Meurig Raymond and Gwyn Jones are up to this week. read more..

NFU President - Peter Kendall

Peter Kendall farms in Eyeworth, East Bedfordshire read more..

Director General - Kevin Roberts

Kevin Roberts is the Director General of NFU, commencing the role in April 2010. read more..

NFU Deputy President - Meurig Raymond

Meurig Raymond farms 2,900 acres in Pembrokeshire in partnership with his twin brother. The farm grows 1,800 acres of combinable crops and 200 acres of potatoes. read more..

NFU Vice President - Gwyn Jones

Gwyn was born into a farming family in North Wales and trained as an engineer with Rolls Royce and an engineering company in London, before returning to agriculture in Wales, studying at Coleg Meirion, and Glynllifon College of Agriculture. read more..

NFU Cymru President - Edmund Bailey

Ed is the third generation to work the family farm. Mostly severely disadvantaged, the land rises to 2,500 feet and Neolithic remains prove it has been farmed continuously for over four thousand years. read more..

Director of Policy - Martin Haworth

Martin Haworth has a degree in Modern History from St John's College, Oxford University. After university he became a stagiaire (trainee) at the European Commission in Brussels in 1973. He subsequently joined the full time staff of the Commission working in the External Relations and Information field. read more..

Horticulture and Potatoes Board chaiman - Sarah Pettitt

Sarah Pettitt is a Lincolnshire-based grower of field vegetables and a partner in the family farming business growing sprouts and purple-spouting broccoli near Boston. read more..

Combinable Crops Board chairman - Ian Backhouse

Ian Backhouse was elected as chairman of the NFU's Combinable Crops Board in March 2008. read more..

Livestock Board chairman - Alistair Mackintosh

Alistair farms 740 acres in total a mixture of owned and rented land at Ravenglass in Cumbria; this is divided between two units one lowland and one within the SDA. He runs 1,200 mule breeding ewes and a 140 cow Limousin cross Suckler herd and sells finished and store stock through the local auction market. read more..

Poultry Board chairman - Charles Bourns

Charles rears chickens, tucked away on the southern edge of the Cotswolds. The son of a surgeon, he followed the footsteps of his grandparents into farming. read more..

NFU Sugar Board chairman - William Martin

William farms a 1000-acre family farm in the Cambridgeshire Fens, near Ely, growing combinable crops, sugar beet and onions. read more..

Director of Membership and the Regions - Malcolm Thomas

A farmer's son from Carmarthenshire in West Wales, Malcolm was appointed Director of Membership and the Regions in August 2008 based in NFU HQ, Stoneleigh. Prior to this appointment he held the post of Director of NFU Cymru and was also Head of Policy at NFU Cymru. read more..

Director of Finance and IS - Ken Sutherland

Ken was born and raised on a raspberry farm in Perthshire before gaining a degree in History from the University of Edinburgh. After moving to London he qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1988. read more..

Acting Director of Communications - Terry Jones

Terry Jones is Acting Director of Communications for the National Farmers Union, a role he accepted in March 2010. read more..

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