Lyndon Edwards receives 2009 Bullock Award

From left: Lyndon Edwards, Stephen Fell and Norman Coward.

1999 Scholar, Lyndon Edwards, has won the 2009 Steven and Gill Bullock Award, which recognises Scholars who have best used the learning from their Scholarship to develop businesses and careers.

Lyndon runs a 240-acre organic dairy farm, plus office buildings and a veterinary centre in Chepstow, Monmouthshire.

He is a director of the organic milk co-operative OMSCo, chairman of the Royal Association of British Dairy Farmers and advises government on animal health policies.

The judges of the Bullock Award were impressed with his leadership style, which they described as "practical, patient and inclusive - bringing people on side without confrontation". They also appreciated his ambition and vision for his business, for local farmer cooperation and for the industry as a whole.

Mr Edwards competed against three other shortlisted Scholars for he prestigious prize.

They were 2000 Scholar Richard Milligan-Manby of Market Rasen, Lincolnshire; 1998 Scholar Anthony Hopkins of Wroot, South Yorkshire; and 1998 Scholar Will Prichard of Letterson, Pembrokeshire.

The judges were banker Norman Coward, farmer and turf specialist Stephen Fell and Jane King, editor of Farmers Weekly.


2009 Bullock Award - Citation

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