with Aled Jones, NFU Cymru President
THIS year, after a three-year break due to the Coronavirus pandemic, NFU Cymru’s annual conference will return for a jam-packed in-person event. This year’s conference will also be my first as president of NFU Cymru and something that I am really looking forward to. The farming landscape has changed considerably since our last in-person conference.
The conference will aim to address some of these issues and will once again return to the Metropole Hotel in Llandrindod Wells on Thursday, November 3.
I will have the honour of opening the conference. Members will then receive a political address from Minister for Rural Affairs Lesley Griffiths MS.
Following Minister Griffiths, we will hear from Mark Berrisfordsmith, chief economic officer at HSBC, in an economic outlook titled “A tug of war – fiscal policy loosens as monetary policy tightens”, before we move on to hear about “Sustainability within the Welsh supply chain” from Sophie Throup, head of agriculture and sustainability for Morrisons, Huw Thomas, managing director of Puffin Produce, and Edward Morgan, group CSR manager at Castell Howell Foods.
Before lunch, we will hear from Professor Alice Stanton, professor at RCSI and director of human health at Devenish Nutrition, about the “Nutritional benefits of animalsource foods”.
After the lunch break, we have a packed afternoon agenda starting with a session on the challenges surrounding sustainability titled “How do we move beyond carbon to look at the whole picture?”. We will hear from Professor Jude Capper, professor of sustainable beef and sheep systems at Harper Adams University.
Our final session of the day will look at the youngsters in the farming industry with Erin Mcnaught, NFU Cymru student and young farmer ambassador, and Carys Jones and Bryn Perry, members of the NFU Cymru Next Generation Group, discussing “The next generation and how they are developing a sustainable future”.
Members must register in advance to ensure their place and can do so by calling the NFU Cymru office on 01982 554200 or visiting the NFU Cymru website.