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She served as vice-president of the NFU from 2014 to 2018 and was voted president of the organisation in 2018. In 2020 and 2022 she was re-elected to the post for further two-year terms. [5] [4] [7] [8] In her role as vice-president and then president, Batters has represented the farming community at a time of great change.
In 2010 Bradshaw was awarded a Nuffield farming scholarship, enabling him to observe agricultural practices in the United States, Australia, New Zealand and Europe. [3] [4] Bradshaw joined the combinable crops board of the National Farmers' Union of England and Wales (NFU) in 2014 and became chair of its national crops board in 2018. In 2019 he ...
The NFU's first president, Colin Campbell, worked to get new branches off the ground, encourage membership and establish the NFU's credibility with government, at a time when farming was going through the longest and deepest depression in its history, as imports of cheap grain and frozen meat flooded in from abroad. [6] [non-primary source needed]
NFU president fights back tears while speaking about impact on farmers. ... Defra also announced new details of its environmental land management schemes, which pay farmers for “public goods ...
NFU president Tom Bradshaw said farmers "are worried about making it to the end of 2025, never mind what happens 25 years down the line". ... Reed said the government would offer a "new deal for ...
But NFU president Tom Bradshaw said the government “fundamentally fails to recognise that the industry is in a cash flow crisis… devastating inheritance tax changes, national insurance hikes ...
In 1943, NFU campaigned to make school lunches permanent, eventually helping to pass school milk legislation through Congress. In 1945, NFU was a founding member of Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe. 1945 also saw the organization lobby for a refund of the federal gas tax for gasoline used for agricultural purposes. [citation needed]
At 5.30am, as farmers climbed aboard an NFU bus in Cirencester, Alex Ross joined them in the biggest battle for the industry in years