Sunday 27 May 2012
Appointments
Manchester-based enriched colony cage egg producer Duncan Priestner has been elected the new chairman of the NFU’s poultry board. Elections took place at NFU’s headquarters in Stoneleigh today and also saw Cheshire farmer Mike Bailey re-elected as vice chairman for turkeys. James Hook, from Oxfordshire, was elected as vice-chairman f...
Mike Chown has joined specialist feed supplement manufacturer, Ufac-UK as area business manager (south). He will be tasked with increasing the range and sales volume of the company’s products through dedicated Ufac merchants south of Birmingham, extending from Kent to Cornwall. Mike has vast experience in the supply industry ’ with ...
Stephen Hodder has been confirmed as the next President of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). He will become President Elect on 1 September 2012 and will take over the two-year elected presidency from Angela Brady on 1 September 2013. The position had previously been held by architects Sir George Gilbert Scott and Sir Basil S...
Former dairy farmer, Andrew Jones, has joined the World Wide Sires UK team as a breeding advisor for the counties of Dorset and Hampshire. Andrew has experience beginning with his dairy farm near Frome in Somerset, taking in a National Diploma in Agriculture at Bridgwater College in Cannington, and including over a decade of farming in extreme c...
Fertiliser blenders and distributors J&H Bunn are set to open new corporate headquarters in Norwich’s Broadland Business Park. "This move will offer us more space to grow our business, and add resources and talent to support that growth," said Richard Sunderland, managing director of J&H Bunn Ltd. "It allows us to consolida...
The CLA has appointed an agricultural advisor and a housing advisor to join its policy team in London. Ed Barker has joined the CLA in a role that consolidates all of the Association’s agricultural work. He will work across land use issues, SPS, food production, livestock including bovine TB, arable and new technology. Prior to joinin...
Fred Gooder, a farmer and grower from North Yorkshire, has been re-elected as chairman of the NFU Legal Board. Trevor Foss, a former county chairman, who runs a mixed farm of around 200 acres in Northamptonshire and writes for NFU Countryside Magazine, was elected vice chairman. "I am very pleased to have been re-elected again this year. Ba...
Micron Group, a producer of hand-held and vehicle-mounted sprayers, has recently appointed a further four new sales, technical and accountancy staff to support its expansion plans in the UK and Europe. ’ Toby Whatley, a university graduate from Harper Adams, joined the company as a Technical Sales Specialist in April 2012. He will assist R...
Mark Townsend joins Alltech as regional Ruminant Specialist for the South of England, where he will be supporting customers from the south east across to the south west continuing to strengthen links between Alltech, farmers and the feed industry. "I will be working closely with both farmers and the feed industry," says Mark, "promoting Alltech...
BSE threatened the future of Bill Mellor’s business back in 1996, so he completely changed his farming system and became an active member of the NFU. Sixteen years later, he proudly sits as the vice chairman of the NFU’s national livestock board with a two year mandate to help provide a profitable, confident livestock industry that ...
One of the University of Reading’s leading agriculture experts has been appointed to the Council of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) by the Minister for Universities and Science David Willetts. Tim Wheeler is Professor of Crop Science at the University and Deputy Chief Scientific Adviser at the UK Departme...
Three members of the British Wool Marketing Board continue their appointment with the Board for a further three-year period. They are: · Malcolm Corbett - English Northern Region · Ian Buchanan - Northern Ireland · Nigel Williams - English Central Welcoming the Board Members back to their current roles BWMB Chief Executive Officer Ia...
Mike Bax, senior partner at the BTF Partnership, Chartered Surveyors and Land Agents, has been installed as the High Sheriff of Kent in a ceremony at the Church of St Matthew, Warehorne, continuing a tradition that is more than 1,000 years old. Traditionally, the office of High Sheriff of Kent would have seen Mike represent the Sovereign in the...
Agricultural ventilation company Hydor has extended its technical support team with the appointment of Richard Kendall. Richard joins Hydor as a Mechanical & Electrical Sales Engineer and will be travelling the UK to provide hands-on support for farmers throughout the UK who are running ventilation systems in a wide range of applications. R...
The U.S. Grains Council have announced the appointment of Dr. Bryan Lohmar as its new director in China. In this capacity, Lohmar will oversee the Council’s programs in the country while maintaining and fostering key relationships with Chinese policy officials. Lohmar has most recently served a three-year stint as the director of economic...
Charles Sercombe has today been elected chairman of the NFU’s national livestock board. Mr Sercombe, a tenant farmer from near Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, replaces Alistair Mackintosh who has stepped down after six years on the board. The board also voted for a new vice chairman bringing in Bill Mellor, from Cheshire, to help lead ...
The Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental management (CIWEM) have appointed Dr. John Bridgeman as the new Editor-in-Chief of the Water and Environment Journal, as Prof. David Butler steps down after a 6-year term at the helm. Dr. John Bridgeman has been in post at the University of Birmingham since 2005, following a 15 year career in...
David King has been re-elected to serve a second term as the NFU tenants group chairman. Mr King, an arable farmer from East Anglia, said that he was "honoured" to have been re-elected by the group, and that he was excited for the future of the tenanted sector. "I am delighted to have been re-elected as chairman of the tenants group. Each and...
Long-standing NFU uplands Chairman Will Cockbain has stepped down from his role today after eight years in post. Mr Cockbain, who will remain a member of the NFU uplands group, said that the decision wasn’t easy. "This has been such a big part of my life for so long, but I took the decision about a year ago that this would be my last te...
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