Paul Temple

NFU Vice President

Paul Temple, the current Vice President of the NFU, was born in 1961. He gained an NDA at the Royal Agricultural College and then studied farm machinery at Bishop Burton Agricultural College.

Mr Temple is a tenant farmer in a family partnership, currently farming 330ha on a mixed farm. In the arable side of his business, he grows wheat and barley - grown for seed - oilseed rape, vining peas and some land let for potatoes. He also farms livestock  - 140 suckler cows utilising permanent grasses, with the stabiliser hybrid being used to develop the dam lines. He also keeps stores purchased for fattening, fed on a TMR system, finishing 500 head/year.

He travelled extensively in Europe and studied joint partnership farming in the Czech Republic and has also visited farms in Paraguay and Argentina.

Mr Temple is a non executive director of Farmway - the largest northern co-operative with retail outlets, feed mill, arable crop trading interests, drying and seed production, selling to farmers and the public.

Other duties include COPA COGECA  as chairman of the Cereals Group for European farming organisations. He is also vice chairman of the Oilseeds and Protein Group. and one of the founding members of the Farmers Biotech Forum (FBF), drawing European farmers together with a biotech interest.

Mr Temple is a member of Climate Change Forum and was a school governor at a large rural comprehensive.

Married to Alison, a teacher of German and French, the couple have two children of 20 and 18, both studying at agricultural universities.