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“It will send a signal to prospective entrants that they will be entering a sector committed to professionalism and continuous improvement. For organisations who purchase our products and those administering farm assurance or compliance schemes it will provide the reassurance they need of a sector striving for the highest standards.
“I encourage everyone with an involvement in the sector to give their full support and encouragement,” Professor Jones concludes.
Mr Day reported that since the initial launch last month there had been over 150 membership enquiries. “We are very pleased with the interest so far and are about to commence a major membership push. At the same time we have been working on the development of a skills framework with Lantra for the different levels of herdsman from assistant herdsman through to herd manager.
“We are confident that Stockmen UK will be established as a significant industry body within the next 12 months,” Mr Day concludes.
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Note to editors
Wynne Jones came to Harper Adams University College in 1988 as Vice-Principal and Director of Research before taking up the post of Principal and Chief Executive in July 1996. The College employs around 400 people with a turnover of £17 million.
Professor Jones is on the Board of Trustees and Council of Lantra (the land based Sector Skills Council) and specifically chairs the Research Development and Planning Advisory Group charged with skills foresight and workforce development plans in the land based sector. He is a Nuffield Scholar and past Chairman of the Nuffield Farming Scholarships Trust which recently launched new food supply chain scholarships with a number of organisations aimed at leadership development in the sector. He is a Fellow of the Royal Agricultural Societies; a Fellow of the Institute of Agricultural Engineering; sits on the Council of the Royal Agricultural Society of England (RASE); and was conferred with the RASE National Agricultural Award in 2005 for services to Agriculture with particular emphasis on Agricultural Education. In 2006 he was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Science from Cranfield University.
He is Farm Director for the Harper Adams University College Farms which operates a range of enterprises, both livestock and arable, and which is in a designated Nitrate Vulnerable Zone.
His specific interests are agricultural education policies and approaches to sustainable food, farming and rural strategies for the UK.
