Meurig Raymond, NFU Cymru Deputy President, will be guest speaker at the NFU Cymru Pembrokeshire County Conference on Monday, 30 January 2012.
Held at the Pavilion, on the County Showground, Withybush, at 7.30pm, NFU Cymru members are invited to listen to Meurig Raymond give an update on the main issues and challenges currently facing the NFU and the agricultural industry such as CAP Reform and Bovine TB.
Meurig Raymond farms 3,100 acres in Pembrokeshire in partnership with his twin brother. The farm grows 2,000 acres of combinable crops and 270 acres of potatoes. There are 620 dairy cows, with 300 followers. The farm also has 600 head of beef cattle and around 2,500 store lambs, fattened during winter.
Meurig, born in 1952, 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 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 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. 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 Vestra Wealth Management in London.
Andrew Lewis, the newly elected NFU Cymru Pembrokeshire County Chairman said, “We are very grateful to Meurig for agreeing to come and speak at the meeting and also to HSBC Bank PLC for sponsoring the event. I hope we will get a good turnout of local NFU Cymru members. Please also encourage your friends and neighbours to come along.”
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