Gethin Hughes

Ceredigion

Since last September Gethin has had a Farm Business Tenancy on a 220 cow dairy farm in Ffostrasol, near Llandysul. He grew up on a dairy, beef and sheep farm, but the dream was always to have his own dairy farm.

Gethin gained a National Diploma in agriculture at Gelli Aur, before going to work home on the family farm and doing various other jobs such as relief milking and fencing. They now run a 220 pedigree holstein cow unit with the average yield of 9,000 litres, and hope to increase that yield and having a beef rearing unit in the next two years.

Gethin is looking forward to meeting new people on the NFU Cymru Next Generation Group and hoping to have more of an insight into what the future holds for young Welsh farmers and trying to find a way of getting more first generation farmers into the industry.