There is a well known saying, 'no pain, no gain' and that will be ringing true in the minds of Milk Link’s 1,600 producers, who are on the brink of reaping just reward for 12 years of loyalty and investment.Dai Davies awarded OBE in Queen's birthday honours
THE former president of NFU Cymru Dai Davies, who stepped down in February, has been awarded the OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list for his services to the agricultural industry in Wales.
Mr Davies farms a 520-acre dairy farm in Carmarthenshire in partnership with his wife Jean and has entered a share agreement with a young former employee. A life-long member of NFU Cymru, he has held a number of key positions in the union at local and county levels before being elected vice-president of NFU Cymru and subsequently president in 2006.
Also receiving the OBE was Jeanette Elizabeth Dawson, principal of Bishop Burton College, Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire, for seven years, while Angus McCall, Golspie, Sutherland, chairman of the Scottish Tenant Farmers Association since it was founded in 2004, received the MBE.
Awards
Knighthood
Prof John Rex Beddington, Government chief scientific adviser, Government Office for Science.
CBE
Prof Martin Shirley, director, Institute for Animal Health, for services to science.
OBE
Paul Damian Conway, senior vice-president, Cargill Inc., for services to the agricultural industry; David Arthur Stephen Davies, lately president, NFU Cymru, for services to the agricultural industry in Wales; Jeanette Elizabeth Dawson, principal, Bishop Burton College, Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire, for services to land-based further and higher education.
MBE
Roger John Cooper, for services to forestry, Anglesey; Angela May Farr, agriculture accounts manager, Finance Department, Welsh Assembly Government; James Henry Fitchie, Newtownards, Co down, for services to ploughing in Northern Ireland; Bethan Sian Jones, project manager, True Food Marketing, for services to the food and drink industry in Wales; Dionis Maisie MacNair, verderer, Ringwood, Hampshire, for services to the New Forest, Hampshire.
Mary Elizabeth McAdam, Newtownards, Co Down, for services to agriculture in Northern Ireland; Angus McCall, for services to tenant farming in Scotland; Dr Sandy Primrose, research programme adviser for services to the Food Standards Agency and to science;Margaret Allison Stewart, Midlothian, for services to the Scottish red meat industry.
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