Managing Director of Carrs Billington Agriculture to Step Down After 28 years of service, Rae Tomlinson, MD of Carrs Billington Agriculture Ltd, has announced that he will retire from the business in January 2020. Mr Tomlinson spent 18 years as Financial Director, before taking over the role of Managing Director in 2010. His successor will be Dr Mark Cole, who will take over day to day management of the business from 20th
September 2019. Dr Cole joins
Carrs Billington Agricultural (Sales) Ltd from ForFarmers where he held senior roles in Poland and the Netherlands. Prior to this he was a General Manager within the Provimi group of companies, where his responsibilities included running the UK based Operations for many years, as well as businesses in South Eastern Europe. Mr Tomlinson said ‘My time with Carrs Billington has been hugely
rewarding and challenging. I have had the good fortune to head an excellent management team and have enjoyed the support of our key shareholders, Carr’s Group and Edward Billington & Son Ltd with the significant developments that have benefitted the business over the past two decades. ‘The agricultural and rural community has some clear challenges
in its immediate future, notably Brexit, I am however convinced that British agriculture will continue to thrive. I would to take this opportunity to thank all my colleagues for their hard work, endeavour and commitment during my tenure’.
Theresa Villiers Appointed as New Defra Secretary Theresa Villiers, the Northern Ireland Secretary from 2012 to 2016, has been appointed as the new Defra Secretary in Boris Johnson’s first cabinet, replacing Michael
Gove.Mrs Villiers is a former MEP and MP for Chipping Barnet in London since 2005. Writing on her Facebook Page Ms Villier said: “I feel very
honoured to have been asked by the Prime Minister to return to the Cabinet, taking on the role of Secretary of State for the Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. I have championed a number of the issues covered by the department, including animal welfare and improving air quality. My new responsibilities will therefore complement many of my local campaigns in my constituency, such as protecting our green spaces.” Ms Viliers has been a strong advocate of a number of animal
welfare issues, including speaking in favour of a ban on the export of live animals for slaughter and supporting CIWF’s campaign to ‘End the Cage’. She is also in favour of culling badgers to tackle bovine TB.
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Obituary - Howard Jackson Howard Jackson was a larger than life character who was well liked across the farming and agricultural communities. Having started his career working on a dairy farm in the early 1970’s, he joined I’Anson Brothers Ltd in 1979. In the early years working for the Masham-based business, Howard spent many years as a sales representative for ruminant feed, sparking his interest in crops. Moving into cereal and pulse buying, Howard was involved in crop trials and the development of varieties of peas, beans and naked oats for use in I’Anson’s micronizing process.
Away from work, Howard was a keen cricketer and golfer, and
regularly attended the annual golf club holiday. Howard was a much- loved friend and colleague to everyone at I’Anson and he will be missed across the business and the wider farming community.
NFU Pays Tribute to Former President Sir Simon Gourlay Former NFU President Sir Simon Gourlay, a passionate moderniser whose reforms changed the way the organisation operated for the better, has died at the age of 85. Sir Simon, President of the NFU from 1986 to 1991, farmed on the
English/Welsh border, first as a beef farmer before turning his hand to dairying and later free-range egg production. The former army officer was first elected to office as NFU Vice
President in 1982, then Deputy President in 1984 and became NFU President when Sir Richard Butler stood down in 1986. Paying tribute to Sir Simon Gourlay, current NFU President Minette
Batters said: “I send my deepest condolences to Sir Simon’s wife, Lady Caroline, and his three sons, Justin, David and Alistair. “During his term in office, Sir Simon had to deal with a number of serious issues and dealt with all of these calmly and effectively. “But he’ll be remembered most as being a great reformist and
moderniser. He came into office determined to leave the NFU in a better condition than he found it – a lasting legacy of his five-year presidency. “Sir Simon was behind a major re-structuring of the organisation
– replacing the old NFU county system with a new, streamlined regional set up. He was also instrumental in creating the NFU’s popular countryside membership category. “Farmers and growers of England and Wales owe Sir Simon
Gourlay a huge debt of gratitude for the unwavering commitment that he showed as one of their most effective leaders.”
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