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Jonathan Tipples
Jonathan farms 620 acres of arable land and 150 acres of grassland all of which is in Higher Level Stewardship. He has been an active member of the NFU since 1991 and is a former ACC Chairman, LEAF Advisory Board member, SAFFIE Project Chairman and HGCA R&D Committee member. He is currently on the South East Regional Advisory Board and a Kent Council Delegate.
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Ian Douglas
Ian has spent more than 30 years in the grain trade and arable merchanting industry. He led Allied Grain through its period of major investment and growth. Following the successful incorporation of Allied Grain into Frontier, he has formed his own consultancy business. He holds several non executive director appointments and remains an active arbitrator for grain disputes.
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Michael Hambly
Michael farms 400 acres in a family partnership producing cereals, oilseed rape and beef. He is a qualified agronomist and lead the Grain Division of Cornwall Farmers. He is a founding member, past Chairman and Director of Kernow Grain. He represents Cornwall NFU and is Vice Chairman of the NFU SW Regional Arable Board and is Chairman of the TAG Technical committee for Cornwall.
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Arthur Hill
Arthur farms in partnership 1,450 acres and contract farms an additional 1,200 acres with 2,350 acres of combinable crops. He was Chairman of NFU Combinable Crops Board and County and Regional Chairman for the West Midlands. He is currently the NFU Council delegate for Shropshire and sits on the West Midlands Regional Assembly. He is on the Shropshire County Council Business Board, the panel for the Agricultural Land Tribunal and serves as a Director of the Shropshire and Staffordshire Machinery Ring.
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David Houghton
David farms 900 acres of mainly arable land in Easter Ross in the North of Scotland. The farm specialises in growing malting barley and wheat for the distilling industry, marketing most crops through Highland Grain Ltd, of which he is a former Chairman. He is also a former Chairman of the Scottish Quality Cereals and the NFU Scotland Combinable Crops Committee.
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Charles Matts
Charles farms in partnership 1,240 acres in Northamptonshire. He is the Managing Director of BFC and the founding Chairman of the Joint Venture Farming Group. He is the Chairman of the NFU Mutual Midlands Regional Board, a former NFU County Chairman and County Treasurer for Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland and former Chairman and Treasurer of the East Midlands NFU Regional Advisory Board.
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Adrian Peck
Adrian is the Managing Director of Dry Drayton Estate Ltd, farming 1,000 acres of combinable crops, and Executive Director of Bushel and Company. He was the NFU Council member for Cambridgeshire for 12 years and has chaired a number of Boards including those of PGRO, Cambridgeshire Farmers and Atlas Agriculture. He is a Governor of Writtle College of Agriculture in Essex.
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John Pidgeon
John is the independent Board member for HGCA, and also works part time as an independent management consultant to the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council. He retired in 2007 after 12 years as Director of Broom's Barn Research Station and Executive Committee member of Rothamsted Research.
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Guy Smith
Guy farms 450 hectares of combinable crops on the north east Essex coast growing mainly milling wheat and malting barley, with an additional 50 hectares in various environmental schemes. He also sits on the Board of the NFU, Crop Evaluation Ltd and is a Director of Tendring Hundred Farmers Club.
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Rad Thomas
Rad farms 390 hectares in Leicestershire growing milling wheat, oilseed rape, tic beans and sugar beet. He is founding director and Chairman of the National Non Food Crops Centre, a former Chairman of the EU Commission Advisory Board for Oilseeds and Proteins and currently a Director of the Processors and Growers Research Organisation.
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Stewart Vernon
Stewart farms 430 acres in a family partnership, growing wheat, barley and oilseed rape and he was a founding member of the North East Arable Centre. He served on the HGCA R&D Committee and the KT group, during which he Chaired the PMC for the WMSS Link project. He is currently a member of the PMC for the Grain storage LINK project and has been an active member of the NFU since 1983.
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Alex Waugh
Alex is the Director General of UK flour millers association, nabim and has worked in the flour milling sector for more than 20 years. He is also Director of the UK Rice Association and Vice President of Euromaisiers. He has served on a number of industry bodies including the Committee of Assured Crops and the Council of independent food research association Campden-BRI.
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Colin West
Colin has worked in the brewing and malting industries for over 30 years, qualifying as a Master Brewer with Ind Coope. He is now Executive Director of the Maltsters Association of Great Britain, working to promote and protect the interests of the UK malting industry in Europe and around the world.
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