Speaking about the Dairy Development Group programme which came to an end in April, David said:
“In September 2016, I had just finished a year of being Chairman of Painswick YFC, so the time was ripe for a new challenge. During the programme we saw how the dairy industry connects together, from the lab side of things through to the processing, and then to Westminster to speak to Farming Minister, George Eustice.
"We were also media trained by an ex-TV presenter. Before I had that training, I would never have wanted to be interviewed on TV or radio but now I have a much better idea of how to promote the dairy industry."
"My advice to anyone who thinks they might be interested in joining the next Dairy Development Group is to just go for it. The group was great, as are the NFU team! All the group members are different; we all farm using different systems and we’d never have met otherwise.”
NFU Dairy Development Group put forward three key priorities to the Dairy Board