Farming correspondent speaks at our Branch AGM

After two years of Covid-19 lockdown restrictions, we were at last able to hold our first ‘in-person’ Annual General Meeting.

This was a great opportunity to introduce our new Branch Chairman, Greg Wilkinson, to members, and also to have a fascinating talk by guest speaker Andrew Davis, farming correspondent for the Newbury Weekly News.

In his talk, Andrew listed three primary objectives for farming and agriculture: food production, nature recovery and combatting climate change. Farmers want more emphasis on food production, he told the AGM, but it is difficult to make a profit from farming without Government support. There is a bright future for farming, he felt, but the question is: how do we get there?