NSA Cymru/Wales Region ARMM

The NSA Cymru / Wales Region Annual Members’ Meeting (ARMM) took place at its usual home of the Royal Welsh Showground, Builth Wells.

Formal business saw no change in the region’s officeholders before the meeting welcomed key figures from the Welsh Farming sector.
NSA’s Phil Stocker, Welsh Government Chief Veterinary Officer Dr Richard Irvine, and the HCC’s John Richards all spoke and were in agreement that Wales’ sheep industry should brace itself for very different times.

Phil told sheep producers and other professionals gathered at the Royal Welsh Showground that record lamb prices prevailed but were coupled with higher costs and uncertainty over support. He adds: “Of course food production is still wanted and needed but farmers are going to have to stand on their own two feet and be rewarded for providing things that can’t be recouped through the marketplace, such as landscape, wildlife, nature, carbon sequestration and those sorts of things. Food production as an enterprise is going to be without the cushions it has relied on for many, many decades. We have to ramp up what we’re doing, think about where we can reduce the costs and where we can optimize our income.”
Read a full report from the meeting here.