Meurig Raymond

NFU Deputy President

Meurig Raymond farms 2,800 acres in Pembrokeshire in partnership with his twin brother.

The farm grows 1,600 acres of combinable crops and 130 of acres of potatoes. There are 600 dairy cows, with 300 followers.

The farm also has 600 head of beef cattle and around 2,500 store lambs, fattened during winter. Meurig, 55, was elected local branch Chairman of the NFU in 1979 and Pembrokeshire County Chairman in 1989. In 1992 he became the Welsh NFU Treasurer and served as the Pembrokeshire delegate on NFU Council between 1995 and 2004.

He served as Vice-Chairman of the NFU's Cereals Committee between 1999 and 2001 and on the Agricultural Wages Board for six years from 1998. He was elected as Vice President of the NFU in 2004 and became Deputy President in 2006.

Meurig represented Wales on the Home Grown Cereals Authority between 1997 and 2004 and he served on the council of Food from Britain between 1997and 2003. He became a Fellow of the Royal Agricultural Society in 2000 and was awarded an MBE in the Queen's New Year's Honours in January 2005 for his services to agriculture.

Meurig is also a Board member of Flood Risk Management Wales, and serves as a Trustee of the Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution (RABI).

He is married to Hilary and they have three grown up children. His eldest son Paul is involved in the family farming business. Nicola is working as a PR executive in Melbourne, Australia, and Jonathan is an investment banker with UBS in London.