Week commencing 26 January 2026
Monday 26 January
- NFU Council is meeting.
- NFU Poultry Adviser Tom Glen is attending an internal NFU meeting to discuss how the EU’s simplification of its organic regulations could impact organic poultry and egg producers in GB.
- NFU National Poultry Board member Matthew Donald is attending a Red Tractor Technical Advisory Committee meeting.
- NFU Council is meeting.
- NFU National Poultry Board Chair Will Raw, Vice-chair Patrick Hook and NFU Chief Poultry Adviser Aimee Mahony are attending a poultry sector roundtable meeting with Farming Minister Dame Angela Eagle in London.
- NFU National Poultry Board members Jonty Hay and Patrick Hook will be attending a Red Tractor Sector Board briefing on Red Tractor’s future strategy.
- Sustainability and Climate Change Adviser Dmitry Feoktistov is presenting at the Yield Enhancement Network Conference on the topic of policy enablers for resilience.
- NFU Deputy President David Exwood is chairing a farm safety session at the Yorkshire Farming Conference.
- NFU Deputy President David Exwood is attending a North Allerton county meeting.
- NFU President Tom Bradshaw is on the Scaling Regenerative Agriculture panel at the fifth Sustainable Foods Conference.
- NFU National Dairy Board is meeting.
- NFU Chief Poultry Adviser Aimee Mahony is attending a FluTrailMap research project workshop on avian influenza and biosecurity in Cambridge.
- NFU Chief Poultry Adviser Aimee Mahony is attending a Defra egg sector stakeholder meeting to discuss the latest challenges and opportunities for the egg sector.
- NFU Water Resources Specialist Mark Betson is chairing a review on last year’s drought for the Agriculture, Environment and Land Use subgroup of the National Drought Group.
- NFU President Tom Bradshaw is attending the NFU East Young Members Conference.
- NFU President Tom Bradshaw is meeting with the Farming Minister Dame Angela Eagle.
- NFU President Tom Bradshaw is meeting with the EU Deputy Head of Mission Isabell Poppelbaum.
- NFU President Tom Bradshaw is attending the UK Counsellors’ roundtable meeting.
- NFU Deputy President David Exwood is attending tenants’ meetings in Lincolnshire and Nottingham.
- NFU Director General Terry Jones is speaking at the Monmouthshire County Conference.
- NFU Director of Policy Andrew Clark is attending a roundtable discussion on food waste at No.10.
- NFU National Livestock Board is meeting.
- NFU National Crops Board is meeting.
- NFU East is hosting a water conference called The Future of Water.
- NFU Chief Poultry Adviser Aimee Mahony is attending a GB Avian Influenza Core Group meeting to hear the latest update from Defra and APHA on the current outbreak.
- NFU Chief Poultry Adviser Aimee Mahony is attending a GB Avian Influenza Vaccination Taskforce meeting with a potential vaccine supplier.
- NFU Poultry Adviser Tom Glen is attending the Anglian Turkey Association’s post-Christmas meeting in Essex.
Friday 30 January
- NFU Chief Poultry Adviser Aimee Mahony is meeting with Red Tractor’s poultry technical manager to discuss the latest assurance issues affecting NFU members.
- NFU Chief Poultry Adviser Aimee Mahony is meeting with ABN to discuss the next iteration of the NFU Poultry Industry Programme.
- NFU Water Resources Specialist Mark Betson and NFU Nutrient Management Specialist Charlotte Allen are speaking with NFU members on water resources and quality at the Nottinghamshire water members’ meeting.
